troop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
government
military
mycology
natural-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: troops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: troops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trooping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trooped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trooped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
gloss: A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
pos: noun
gloss: A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of soldiers; military forces.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.
His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
gloss: An individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded.
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.
2022, CNN, First Russian troop to speak out publicly against Putin’s war. Hear what he has to say (archived)
gloss: A company of actors; a troupe.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: In order to form the new troop to a greater degree of perfection, the four principal actors were placed in the seminary of the cadets
gloss: A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
pos: noun
examples: 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.”
gloss: A group of monkeys.
pos: noun
tags: collective
gloss: A group of meerkat families living together.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of mushrooms that are close but not close enough to be called a cluster.
pos: noun
gloss: To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To march on; to go forward in haste.
pos: verb
gloss: To move or march as if in a crowd.
pos: verb
examples: The children trooped into the room.
Derived words: intertroop
paratroop
shock troop
stormtroop
storm troop
troop carrier
trooper
troop horse
trooplift
troopmate
troopship
troop train
troopwise
troop the colour
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