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paratroop

paratroop noun: a company of paratroopers.

Noun

paratroop (plural paratroops)

  1. A company of paratroopers.

Verb

paratroop (third-person singular simple present paratroops, present participle paratrooping, simple past and past participle paratrooped)

  1. (intransitive) To serve as a paratrooper.

paratroop meaning in Tamil and Urdu

paratroop in Tamil

வான்படை பயிற்சி

paratroop in Urdu

چھاتا بردار

Forms of paratroop

Noun
pluralparatroops
Verb
third-person singular presentparatroops
present participleparatrooping
past participleparatrooped
pastparatrooped

Origin of paratroop

From para- + troop.

Back-formation from paratrooper.

Questions about paratroop

What does paratroop mean?
Paratroop means a company of paratroopers.
What is paratroop in Tamil?
Paratroop in Tamil is வான்படை பயிற்சி. See Paratroop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paratroop?
Paratroop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of paratroop?
The plural of paratroop is paratroops.

Words near paratroop in the dictionary

  1. paratriathlon
  2. paratriathlons
  3. paratrigeminal
  4. paratriploid
  5. paratrochlear
  6. paratroop
  7. paratrooped
  8. paratrooper
  9. paratroopers
  10. paratrooping
  11. paratroops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paratroop (page history and authors); paratroop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); paratroop (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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