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troop

/tɹuːp/

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British/tɹʉwp/

troop noun: a collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).

Noun

troop (plural troops)

  1. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
    • That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    1. (collective) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
    2. (collective) A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
    3. (collective, in plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
      • Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
      • Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    4. (collective, nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
      • In order to form the new troop to a greater degree of perfection, the four principal actors were placed in the seminary of the cadets1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark
    5. (collective, scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
      • Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920), Aids To Scoutmastership, page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
  2. (broadly, nonstandard) An individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper.
    • One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded.2018 August 8, Donald R. White, Death In a Lonely Place, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82
    • Although the mission failed, at least 5 ISIL militants were killed, however 1 American troop was wounded. According to the reports, Jordan had a role in the operation and that one Jordanian soldier had been wounded as well.(Can we date this quote?), Victor Grant-Lawrence, Conspiracy Theories And Stuff, Lulu.com, →ISBN
  3. (collective) A group of primates (lemurs, monkeys and apes).
  4. (collective) A group of meerkat families living together.
    • troop of meerkats is usually made up of two or three family groups.2011, Mammals of the Southern Hemisphere, Marshall Cavendish Reference, page 178
  5. A group of mushrooms that are close but not close enough to be called a cluster.
  6. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

Verb

troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)

  1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
  3. To move or march as if in a crowd.
    • The children trooped into the room.

Proper noun capitalized: Troop

Troop (plural Troops)

  1. A surname.

troop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

troop in Hindi

small unit of cavalry
टुकड़ी ṭukṛī
detachment of soldiers or police
टुकड़ी ṭukṛī
military forces
टुकड़ी ṭukṛī

troop in Tamil

தரைத்திரள், படைத்திரள், தண்டு, துருப்பு, கலைப்பிரிவு

troop in Urdu

troop
کل kul
troop, company; body; multitude
رمہ rama

troop in Bengali

troop, squad
পল্টন polṭon
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troop in Telugu
ట్రూప్
troop in Malayalam
സൈനിക സംഘം, ആൾക്കൂട്ടം, പടക്കുതിരക്കൂട്ടം, പുരുഷാരം
troop in Kannada
ಗುಂಪು, ತಂಡ, ಹಿಂಡು, ದಳ
troop in Odia
ଟ୍ରୁପ୍
troop in Sanskrit
शर्ध śárdha, अज ajá, सार्थ sā́rtha, यूथ yūthá
troop in Tagalog
sampanawan
troop in Indonesian
tentara

Examples of troop in a sentence

  • 2022, CNN, First Russian troop to speak out publicly against Putin’s war. Hear what he has to say (archived)
  • His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify...

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Forms of troop

Noun
pluraltroops
Verb
third-person singular presenttroops
present participletrooping
past participletrooped
pasttrooped
Proper noun
pluralTroops

Plural of troop: troops

Origin of troop

Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe, from Back-formation from troupeau, from Middle French trope, troupe, from Old French trope, trupe, of unknown origin. Compare Early Medieval Latin troppus. Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp, dorp, and trip. Cognate with German Dorf (“village”).

Words formed from troop

Phrases with troop

Words that rhyme with troop

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Questions about troop

What does troop mean?
Troop means a collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
What is troop in Hindi?
Troop in Hindi is टुकड़ी (ṭukṛī). See Troop meaning in Hindi.
How do you use troop in a sentence?
2022, CNN, First Russian troop to speak out publicly against Putin’s war. Hear what he has to say (archived)
What part of speech is troop?
Troop can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce troop?
Troop is pronounced /tɹuːp/ (UK).
What is the plural of troop?
The plural of troop is troops.

Words near troop in the dictionary

  1. troonism
  2. troonisms
  3. troonphobia
  4. troons
  5. troons out
  6. troop
  7. troop carrier
  8. troop carriers
  9. troop horse
  10. troop horses
  11. troop ship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: troop (page history and authors); Troop (page history and authors); troop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); رمہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); পল্টন (Bengali) (page history and authors); troop (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); troop (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); troop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); troop (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अज (Sanskrit) (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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