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Definition of 'Troop' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) troop
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.

2.  troop
a cavalry unit corresponding in size to a company of infantry.

3.  troop
troops,

4.  troop
a body of soldiers, police, etc.

5.  troop
soldiers, esp. enlisted persons.

6.  troop
a unit of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts usu. having a maximum of 32 members under an adult leader.

7.  troop
a herd, flock, or swarm.

8.  troop
Archaic. a band or troupe of actors.

9. (v.i.) troop
to gather in a company; flock together.

10.  troop
to come, go, or pass in great numbers; throng.

11.  troop
to walk, as if in a march; go:
trooping down to breakfast.

12.  troop
to associate or consort (usu. fol. by with).

13.  troop
Chiefly Brit. to carry (the flag or colors) in a ceremonial way before troops.

Etymology:  (1535–45; < F troupe, OF trope, prob. back formation from tropel herd, flock)

Definition of 'Troop' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) troop
a group of soldiers

2. (noun) troop
a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company

3. (noun) troop, scout troop, scout group
a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts

4. (verb) troop, flock
an orderly crowd
"a troop of children"

5. (verb) parade, troop, promenade
march in a procession
"the veterans paraded down the street"

6. (verb) troop
move or march as if in a crowd
"They children trooped into the room"


Definition of 'Troop' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Troop
a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude

2. (noun) Troop
soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural

3. (noun) Troop
specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery

4. (noun) Troop
a company of stageplayers; a troupe

5. (noun) Troop
a particular roll of the drum; a quick march

6. (verb) Troop
to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops

7. (verb) Troop
to march on; to go forward in haste


Translation of 'Troop' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a group of ordinary soldiers.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: troep Arabic flag Arabic: فِرْقَه، قُوّات Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: ескадрон
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tropa Czech flag Czech: četa, oddíl German flag German: die Truppe
Danish flag Danish: enhed Greek flag Greek: στράτευμα Spanish flag Spanish: tropa
Estonian flag Estonian: väeosa Farsi flag Farsi: گروهی از سربازان Finnish flag Finnish: sotajoukko
French flag French: troupe Hebrew flag Hebrew: חַייָלִים Hindi flag Hindi: दल
Croatian flag Croatian: vojnici Hungarian flag Hungarian: csapat Indonesian flag Indonesian: pasukan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hersveit, riddaraliðssvei Italian flag Italian: truppa Japanese flag Japanese: 軍隊
Korean flag Korean: 군대 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: būrys Latvian flag Latvian: karaspēka vienība
Malay flag Malay: sekumpulan askar Dutch flag Dutch: troep Norwegian flag Norwegian: tropp
Polish flag Polish: oddział Persian flag Persian: گروهی از سربازان Pashto flag Pashto: د سرتیرو ډله
Portuguese flag Portuguese: tropa Romanian flag Romanian: trupă Russian flag Russian: отряд солдат
Slovak flag Slovak: oddiel, jednotka Slovenian flag Slovenian: četa Serbian flag Serbian: trupa
Swedish flag Swedish: trupp Thai flag Thai: กองทหาร Turkish flag Turkish: askerî birlik
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 部隊 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: загін; батарея Urdu flag Urdu: فوج
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lính, quân đội Chinese flag Chinese: 部队

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