troupe
/tɹuːp/
troupe noun: a company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.
Noun
troupe (plural troupes)
- A company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.
- Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of...2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian
- Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.2020 April 24, Oscar Holland, “How North Korea’s ideology is built on song and dance”, in CNN
- Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
Verb
troupe (third-person singular simple present troupes, present participle trouping, simple past and past participle trouped)
- To tour with a troupe.
Proper noun capitalized: Troupe
Troupe (plural Troupes)
- A surname.
troupe meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
troupe in Tamil
- கலைஞர் கூட்டம்
troupe in Urdu
- منڈلی, طائفہ, ٹولی
troupe in Malayalam
- company, group, band
- കലാകാരന്മാരുടെ സംഘം, ഗായകസംഘം, നാടകസംഘം, കളിയോഗം, നടനസംഘം, നർത്തകസംഘം
troupe in Kannada
- troupe,
- ತಂಡ taṇḍa
Examples of troupe in a sentence
- Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.
- They had to share the elevator with a troupe of candy-stripers heading off to the cafeteria for lunch.
- Even a lifetime circusgoer is unlikely to have come across a troupe as remarkable as the Tadjibajev family circus.
Forms of troupe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | troupes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | troupes |
| present participle | trouping |
| past participle | trouped |
| past | trouped |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Troupes |
Origin of troupe
Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
Words formed from troupe
Words that rhyme with troupe
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bloop
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about troupe
- What does troupe mean?
- Troupe means a company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.
- What is troupe in Tamil?
- Troupe in Tamil is கலைஞர் கூட்டம். See Troupe meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is troupe?
- Troupe can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce troupe?
- Troupe is pronounced /tɹuːp/.
- What is the plural of troupe?
- The plural of troupe is troupes.
Words near troupe in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: troupe (page history and authors); Troupe (page history and authors); troupe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); troupe (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); troupe (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ತಂಡ (Kannada) (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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