Troop

Definition: Troop

Troop

Noun

1. A group of soldiers.

2. A cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company.

3. A unit of girl or boy scouts.

4. An orderly crowd; "a troop of children".

Verb

1. March in a procession.

2. Move or march as if in a crowd; "They children trooped into the room".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "troop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Troop \Troop\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Trooped; Trooping.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Troop

Assemblage

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Combatant

Tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran; merchant marine.

Crosswords: Troop

You have the power levels of a Boy Scout troop! (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

Oops the Naughty's troop in sections of forties (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

F Troop (1965)

The Dog Troop (1964)

Ski Troop Attack (1960)

Troop Train (1943)

Battle Troop (1942)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Berry Brave Troop (reference)

• A Troop of Chimpanzees (Spilsbury, Louise. Animal Groups.) (reference)

• Gladys Grape (Fruit Troop Action Board Books) (reference)

• Paneuropean Set 3 Superheavy Troop and Missile Tank Squadron (reference)

• Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West 1863 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Joshua's Troop (reference)

• Ski Troop Attack (reference)

• Troop Beverly Hills (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Troop (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney's Goof Troop (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The parasailing concept is born - a cartoon of a circus troop using a balloon. In: "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 76. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Boy Scout Troop cleaning at BLM Fisherman's Recreation Area. Credit: Hogervorst.

A troop of Brownies from Portland, OR try on their hard hats. Credit: Scott Brayton.

Ida B. Wells housing project Some of the Boy Scouts of Troop 446 who meet in the community center / John Delano. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Probably photographed in 1902, at the time of her completion by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California. This ship was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 12 March 1918 and commissioned on 23 March as USS Alaskan (ID # 4542). She was transferred from the Naval Overseas Transportation Service to the Troop Transportation Force in December 1918. On 5 August 1919, Alaskan was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. Credit: NAVY.

Engraving by W. Ridgway after a drawing by C. Parsons, published by Virtue & Co., New York. It depicts Federal warships, under Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, USN, bombarding Fort Beauregard (at left) and Fort Walker (at right). Troop transports are standing by in the distance. U.S. Navy ships present and identified include (from left): Mohican, Susquehanna, Augusta, Wabash (Flagship), Unadilla, Pawnee, Bienville, Ottawa, Curlew and Seneca. Credit: NAVY.

Two and a half ton prime mover towing a 105 mm. howitzer along the Algerian beach. Troop ships can be seen in the background. Credit: Library of Congress.

Troop D 5th U.S. Cavalry lining up for dinner, Mayaguaz [sic], P.R. Credit: Library of Congress.

Soldier and eagle mascot beside "H" Troop flag. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Chaplain J.R.C. Pinn conducts a church service on the forward deck of a troop transport carrying a large contingent of U.S. Army engineers to Liberia, Africa, with which the United States has concluded a defense ageeme. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

When I had finished my work, I desired the Emperor to let a troop of his best horse, twentyfour in number, come and exercise upon this plain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The UAE military relies heavily on troop force from other Arab countries and Pakistan. (references)

Moreover, to reduce the nation's expenses, a massive restructuring program is currently under way in all armed forces branches, which is expected to result in reduced troop levels and more efficient operations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Lebanon

On March 13, LAF troops instituted tight security measures to stop 'Awnists from conducting demonstrations in front of Syrian troop posts to mark the 12th anniversary of the beginning of Awn's "war of liberation." Army troops set up numerous checkpoints on all roads leading to university campuses and schools. (references)

Niger

According to the law used in the case, "those who by publication, distribution, or broadcast by any means cause a crime or an offense to occur or to be attempted will be punished as accomplices." In 2000 three journalists from the weekly l'Enqueteur newspaper were arrested for reporting false news regarding Nigerien troop movements near the Benin border. (references)

Economic History

Comoros

France maintains a small troop presence in Comoros at government request. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

In an August 25 meeting, Secretary of Defense Gerardo Clemente Vega Garcia told members of the Congressional Chiapas Peace and Reconciliation Commission that any movements detected by citizens were part of normal troop rotations and not part of an intimidation campaign. (references)

Russia

This tendency commonly is attributed to stressful conditions throughout the armed forces--for example, degrading and substandard living conditions persist throughout the armed forces--and to the widespread placement of inexperienced reserve officers, on active duty for 2 years, in primary troop leadership positions. (references)

Political Economy

Congo

Troop redeployments began in March and were completed with minor exceptions by July. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

My troop

Expressions using "troop": armored troop ♦ armoured troop vehicle ♦ reconnaissance troop ♦ scout troop ♦ To troop the ♦ to troop the colors ♦ to troop the colours ♦ troop along ♦ troop away ♦ troop carrier ♦ troop commander ♦ troop inspection ♦ troop movement ♦ troop of children ♦ troop of horses ♦ troop off ♦ troop round ♦ troop together ♦ troop transport ♦ troop up. Additional references.

Beginning with "troop": troop-carrier, troop-carriers, troop-carrying, troop-carrying vehicle, troop-contributing, troop-either, troop-horse, troop-leader, troop-ship, troop-ships, troop-train.

Ending with "troop": shock-troop.

Albanian

tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, truss, tuft, tussock, wad), trupa (command, troops), shkudron, kope (band, drove, herd, pack, parcel), grup (array, batch, body, bracket, camp, clutch, cohort, colony, confederate, coterie, crowd, gang, group, groupment, lot, parcel, party, phalanx, platoon, squad, tally, team, unit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوج (regiment), ‏فرقة مسرحية, ‏كتيبة (battalion, detachment, division, draft, phalanx), ‏مجموعة جنود, ‏مجموعة (aggregate, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, battery, bloc, block, body, case, collection, combination, community, company, compilation, complex, gathering, group, list, pack, party, series, set, squad, suit, system, team), ‏قوات, ‏قطيع (drove, flock, group, herd), ‏وحدة عسكرية, ‏سرية خيالة (squadron), ‏طغمة (junta, pack, party), ‏إندفع بأعداد كبيرة, ‏إحتشد (be gathered, congregate, crowd, flock, huddle, jostle, muster, swarm, teem, throng), ‏رهط (band, group). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам се (band together, convene, focus, forgather, meet, mix up, turn out), стадо (bunch, flock, herd, horde, mob, pack, pride), сбор (aggregate, amount, assembly, dues, fee, fete, lump, muster, number, tot, total, whole), тълпя се (collect, crowd, crowd together, flock, herd, horde together, mob, swarm, throng, whirl), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train), трупам се (conglomerate, crowd round, flock, flood, mass, mob, throng), компания (bunch, circle, companionship, company, crowd, lot, party, push, set, society, tribe), кавалерийски взвод, група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, category, clan, cluster, cohort, crowd, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite), множество (host, legion, loads of, many, mass, multiplicity, multitude, plurality, regiment, scores, set, swarm, throng, variety, wilderness), минавам в строй, ескадрон (squadron), батарея (battery). (various references)

Chinese 

队伍 (Procession, troops). (various references)

Czech

tlupa (band, gang), shromáždit se (assemble, collect, concentrate on smth., congregate, convene, crowd, flog together, gather, get together, group, rally), odtáhnout (drag somewhere, tow, troop away, withdraw), oddíl (bay), houf (band, bevy, bunch, drove, gaggle, herd, horde, shoal, throng), eskadrona (squadron), chodit v houfech, baterie (battery). (various references)

Dutch

horde (band, horde), bende (are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, gang, group, heap, herd, horde, pack, set). (various references)

Esperanto

trupo (troupe), hordo (band, horde). (various references)

Faeroese

harkalið (band, bevy, gang, horde), flokkur (are, bevy, class, cluster, collection, faction, gang, group, heap, herd, pack, party, set, side, squad, swarm, troupe, type). (various references)

Farsi 

فراهم امدن , گرداوردن (Amass, Assemble, Collect, Compile), عده سربازان , استواران , رژه رفتن (Defile, Parade), دسته دسته شدن . (various references)

Finnish

joukkue (band, body, gang, platoon, team), joukko (body, crowd, force, host, mass, multitude), eskadroona. (various references)

French

troupe (troupe). (various references)

German

Truppe (army, company, corps, force, outfit, squad, troops, troupe), trupp (band, bunch, contingent, group, party, squad), schar (band, company, crowd, flight, flock, gaggle, galaxy, gang, host, mob, party, shoal, swarm, throng). (various references)

Greek 

συμπορεύομαι (go together), πηγαίνω ομαδικώσ, πλήθοσ (a lot of, army, battalion, bevy, crowd, heaps, host, huddle, large number of, lots, multitude, plenty of, ruck, shoal, swarm, throng), ομάδα (bloc, group, pack, party, squad, team), θίασοσ (theater company, theatre company, troupe), ίλη ιππικού (squadron). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תק�"ל (congregate, crowd, gather, mass, mob, swarm, throng), קבוצת חילים (phalanx), פלו�'�" (company, detachment, platoon, squadron), א�'ו�"�" (association, bundle, fascine, fellowship, group, package, society, sodality), �'�"ו�" (battalion, regiment). (various references)

Hungarian

csoport (band, bank, battery, bunch, clump, cluster, colony, company, covey, faction, gang, group, knot, number, platoon, posse, rating, team, wing), csapat (band, bevy, cohort, company, covey, flock, gang, group, party, side, skein, team), banda (band, bevy, clique, covey, crew, crowd, gang, kit, nest, set). (various references)

Indonesian

pasukan (brigade, forces, squad), gerombolan (bunch, cluster, gang, group). (various references)

Irish

feadhain. (various references)

Italian

truppa (band). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

部隊�'�退 (troop withdrawal), 輸送船 (transport ship, troop ship), 軍容 (military accouterments, troop formation), 本陣 (daimyo's inn, stronghold, troop headquarters), 兵力削減 (force reduction, troop reduction), 中隊 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐ�"よう (collection of weaklings, flock of sheep, for military use, military accouterments, troop formation), ぶたいてったい (troop withdrawal), ほ�"じ�" (daimyo's inn, stronghold, troop headquarters), ゆそうせ�" (an oil tanker, transport ship, troop ship), へいりょくさく�'�" (force reduction, troop reduction), ちゅうたい (important connection, important social foundation, leaving school during a term). (various references)

Korean 

부대 (Accompanying, Bag, troops). (various references)

Manx

cruinnaghey (assemblage, assemblage persons, beseige, congregation, enclose, focus, gather, head, hive, huddle, mass, raise, round, screw up, sum up). (various references)

Papiamen

tropa (troupe). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooptray

Portuguese

tropa (arm, host, soldiery, troupe). (various references)

Romanian

trupe (force), trupã (company), trâmbã (puff, sandstorm, whirlwind), turmã (charge, drove, flock, herd, sheep), herghelie (stud), adunãturã (amalgam, congeries, crowd, gathering, group, hash, heap, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, mishmash, mob, swarm), şleahtã (boodle), bandã (band, binder, bunch, clique, cushion, gang, pack, parcel, ribbon, ring, rout, set, strap, strip, tape), baterie de artilerie, buluc (heap, higgledy-piggledy), cârd (band, bevy, drove, flock, gang, group, herd, pack, shoal), ceatã (band, cohort, drove, flock, gang, group, knot, order, pack, ring, rout, tribe), ciopor (flock), cireadã (herd, pod), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total), gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, flock, heap, herd, mob, multitude, populace, press, rabble, riff raff, squash, the many), laie (band), mulţime de oameni, pluton (pluton), se deplasa în marş, soldaţi, stol (bevy, Covey, flock, pack, swarm), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, warehouse), furnicar (ant-bear, formicary, hive, host, swarm). (various references)

Russian 

эскадрон (squadron), стая (bevy, flight, flock, horde, muster, pack, pride, school, swarm), толпа (bike, boodle, crowd, drove, mob, posse, rabble, swarm, throng), взвод (platoon), батарея (battery, pile, powerpack, range). (various references)

Scottish

meirghe (a banner, banner), feadhainn (folk, people, some people, those). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skup (aggregate, assemblage, bevy, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convolution, costly, expensive, fancy, gathering, ingathering, meeting), ići u gomili, grupa (band, bunch, clump, cluster, group, squad, suit, team), eskadron (airfleet), defilovati (defile). (various references)

Spanish

tropa (rank and file). (various references)

Swedish

trupp (are, band, bevy, body, cluster, collection, forces, group, heap, herd, pack, set, squad, team, troupe), tropp (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, section, set, squad, squard), skara (band, body, cloud, cohort, crowd, flock, flocks, platoon), marschera (footslog, foot-slog, March). (various references)

Turkish

topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, company, corps, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society), topluca ilerlemek (press), toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop together, troop up, turn out), süvari bölüğü (squadron), izci grubu (crew), cemaat (boodle, caboodle, communion, community, congregation, crowd, flock, fold, parish, sect), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, unanimity, union, unit, unity), bölük (company, maniple, squad). (various references)

Ukrainian

череда (bunch, herd), група людей, збиратися натовпом, перевозити війська. (various references)

Vietnamese 

lũ (band, bunch, confraternity, covey, crowd, flood, regiment, set), bộ đội (military), bọn (band, boodle, clique, confraternity, covey, number, parcel, ring, tribe), đo� n (band, bevy, body, cloud, gang, legion, set), đám (boodle, cluster, crew, horde, set, swarm, volume), đ� n (cluster, colony, grist, swarm). (various references)

Welsh

mintai (band, battalion, brigade). (various references)

caterva. (various references)

heap. (various references)

brigata. (various references)

trope. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "troop": trooped, trooper, troopers, troopial, troopials, trooping, troops, troopship, troopships. (additional references)

Words ending with "troop": intertroop, paratroop. (additional references)

Words containing "troop": paratrooper, paratroopers, paratroops. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Troop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kroop, Oropou, stroop, tooooo, toop, Toorop, torip, Torodov, Torpo, toup, traup, treip, Treloup, Trepov, triap, Tricomp, Triop, triup, tro, trob, trodo, trogog, trolop, Tronoh, troo, trood, troog, trool, troon, troope, troot, trooz, tropa, troph, tropo, tropoe, Tropoje, Tropp, tropy, trosp, trou, troub, trouc, trouf, troupf, trouv, trouw, troux, trox, trup, Trusov. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: poor, port, root, roto, toro, trop.

-2 letters: oot, opt, ort, pot, pro, rot, too, top, tor.

-3 letters: op, or, to.

+1 letter: pronto, proton, torpor, troops, uproot.

+2 letters: comport, dropout, foretop, gosport, outcrop, outdrop, outport, outpour, overtop, partook, patroon, poofter, poorest, portico, portion, proctor, promote, pronota, protons, provost, rolltop, rooftop, stooper, taproom, taproot, topwork, torpedo, torpors, towrope, trollop, trooped, trooper, uproots.

+3 letters: boltrope, comports, copastor, copatron, doorpost, doorstep, doorstop, dropouts, dropshot, dropwort, footrope, foretops, gosports, homeport, hoopster, hornpout, impostor, isotropy, moonport, operator, orthoepy, outcrops, outdrops, outgroup, outports, outpours, outpower, overplot, overtops, parotoid, patroons, pinkroot, pliotron, pokeroot, poltroon, poofters, poortith, porosity, porthole, porticos, portions, positron, postform, postoral, postriot, potatory, proctors, promoted, promoter, promotes, pronator, pronotum, proteose, protocol, protonic, protopod, protoxid, protozoa, provosts, pteropod, pulmotor, rooftops, soapwort, sorption, stolport, stoopers, stopover, taprooms, taproots, theropod, topcross, topworks, torpedos, towropes, trapdoor, trollops, trollopy, troopers, troopial, trooping, troponin, uprootal, uprooted, uprooter, wetproof.