Troupe

Definition: Troupe

Troupe

Noun

1. Organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel".

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

Date "troupe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Troupe \Troupe\, noun. [French expression, troop. See Troop.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Troupe

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.

Crosswords: Troupe

French (are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, party, set, troop, troupe).

Tom's Tramping Troupe (1917)

The Tank Town Troupe (1916)

Pulque Pete and the Opera Troupe (1912)

The Angel and the Stranded Troupe (1912)

Monte Myro Troupe of Acrobats (1900)

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

Books

• A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe (Social and Economic Studies, No. 36) (reference)

• First You Sit on the Floor: A Guide to Developing a Youth Theatre Troupe (reference)

• Le Petit manuel des coulisses : organisation d'une troupe et production d'un spectacle de théâtre (reference)

• Les Troupe de Marine (reference)

• The Second City: A Backstage History of Comedy's Hottest Troupe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Spanish Dance Troupe (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an ... Credit: NASA.

"A Junction City boy scout from troupe #334 finds more than garbage to pick up". Credit: Saundra Miles.

"Loron Robertson and Anthony Elkins from Troupe #106, helps clean up BLM lands". Credit: Saundra Miles.

Officer of the Deck, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Howard W. Milke, USNR, welcomes entertainer Pascacio Alinangohan as he boards the ship in 1945. Mr. Alinangohan, a former guerrilla Captain whose stage name is "Professor Paz", led a troupe of dancers, singers and guitarists in a show for the carrier's crew. The plaque behind them features a quotation from the speech given by Philippine President Manuel Quezon at USS Bataan's launching ceremonies on 1 August 1943. For more extensive information, see Photo # NH 47859 (extended caption). Credit: NAVY.

Jack Benny troup, Ahwaz post--Sept. 43. Jack Benny with Colonel Pettit and the rest of the Jack Benny show troupe at Colonel Pettit's residence. Credit: Library of Congress.

Traveling carnival at Old Trap, North Carolina. This troupe follows the migrants around and stops where there is a large settlement of them. A show generally consists of a band concert and movie and vaudeville. Credit: Library of Congress.

Morris Brothers minstrels from Boston, organized Dec. 14th, 1857--The model troupe / Ledger Job Print, Phila. Credit: Library of Congress.

The original and only Royal Japanese Troupe direct from Jeddo, Japan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Royal Japanese Troupe. Credit: Library of Congress.

The folk dance troupe comes to the date grove. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Minorities

Poland

In June the Philadanco dance troupe, which was touring the country as part of the Eighth Annual International Dance Conference and Festival in Warsaw, Poznan, and Bytom, reported that in Bytom, some of the dancers were called "monkeys" and "animal" in English and had objects thrown at them. (references)

Women

Cote d'Ivoire

In the summer, the Manh-Boya theater troupe campaigned against FGM in Abidjan using dance and theater. (references)

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

Albanian

trupë (body, phalanx, soldiery). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرقة (band, brigade, choir, command, sect, squad), ‏جماعة (association, band, body, clan, cluster, cohort, company, connection, connexion, corporation, drove, gaggle, gang, group, horde, order). (various references)

Chinese 

班底 (ordinary members of theatrical troupe), 班子 (organized group, theatrical troupe), 劇團 (theatrical troupe). (various references)

Czech

herecká spoleènost. (various references)

Danish

trup af unge skuespillere (troupe of young actors). (various references)

Dutch

troep (accumulation, are, band, bevy, clique, cluster, collection, coterie, crowd, gang, good great group, group, heap, herd, junto, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, troop). (various references)

Esperanto

trupo (troop). (various references)

Faeroese

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

Farsi 

دسته بازیگران ونمایش دهندگان , بصورت دسته حرکت کردن . (various references)

French

troupe (troop). (various references)

German

Truppe (army, company, corps, force, outfit, squad, troop, troops). (various references)

Greek 

θίασοσ (theater company, theatre company, troop). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ק�" (band, company, ensemble, group). (various references)

Hungarian

trupp, színtársulat (acting company, company, theatrical company). (various references)

Italian

viaggiare con la compagnia teatrale, compagnia teatrale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

劇団 (theatrical company), 団 (body, company, group, party), 一行 (line, party, row). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっ�"う (8-10 p.m., a thought, an item, at all, consideration, first watch, line, one proofreading, party, row, the first proof, whole school), いちぎょう (line, party, row), �'き� �" (talk on drama, the stage, the theatrical world, theatrical company), � �" (body, company, failure, flight of steps, grade, group, level, mandala, party, platform, podium, rank, rostrum, stair, step). (various references)

Manx

companaght. (various references)

Papiamen

tropa (troop). (various references)

Pig Latin

oupetray

Portuguese

tropa (arm, host, soldiery, troop), grupo (bevy, brood, bunch, collection, committee, crew, crowd, denomination, flock, gang, group, heap, herd, junta, junto, plump, series, team, tribe, troop), elenco (cast, troop), companhia (association, companionship, company, corporation, crowd, fellowship, firm, gang, pension, squad, troop). (various references)

Romanian

trupã la teatru. (various references)

Russian 

труппа (company). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trupa, družina (band, bunch), ansambl (ensemble). (various references)

Spanish

grupo (are, band, bank, batch, bevy, block, bracket, bunch, camp, clump, cluster, collection, coterie, Covey, crowd, delegacy, delegation, gang, group, heap, herd, huddle, knot, lot, mob, outfit, pack, panel, parcel, party, posse, pride, raft, range, set, square decametre, team, tie, troop, unit), compañía de teatro, compañía (attendance, circle of friends, companionship, company, Ingathering, junta, society, troop). (various references)

Swedish

trupp (are, band, bevy, body, cluster, collection, forces, group, heap, herd, pack, set, squad, team, troop), teatersällskap, skådespelartrupp, circustrupp. (various references)

Turkish

trup, tiyatro topluluğu. (various references)

Ukrainian

трупа. (various references)

caterva. (various references)

troupe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "troupe": trouped, trouper, troupers, troupes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Troupe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: croupe, Kroupa, pteropuo, Rokupa, Rouppe, toipe, traup, triup, trolup, Trompeau, troope, troopie, tropa, Tropea, tropoe, troppe, trou, troub, Troubk, trouce, trouge, troule, troupde, troupf, trouph, troups, trousee, trouve, Truppe. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pouter, roupet, uptore.

-1 letter: erupt, outer, outre, repot, route, toper, trope.

-2 letters: euro, pert, poet, pore, port, pour, pout, pure, repo, rope, rote, roue, roup, rout, tope, tore, tour, trop, true.

-3 letters: ope, opt, ore, ort, our, out, per, pet, pot, pro, pur, put, rep, ret, roe, rot, rue, rut, toe, top, tor, tup, upo.

-4 letters: er, et.

+1 letter: petrous, posture, poulter, pouters, poutier, proteus, spouter, trouped, trouper, troupes.

+2 letters: apterous, computer, eruption, eutrophy, outcaper, outpower, outpreen, outpress, outprice, paroquet, polluter, postured, posturer, postures, poulters, protrude, proudest, resprout, roupiest, spouters, sprouted, superhot, troupers, uprooted, uprooter, upstroke, uptowner.

+3 letters: computers, corpulent, corrupted, corrupter, croupiest, dipterous, eruptions, eurytopic, eutrophic, importune, imposture, mousetrap, opportune, outcapers, outpoured, outpowers, outprayed, outpreach, outpreens, outpriced, outprices, outspread, overtrump, paroquets, peculator, petroleum, pirouette, polluters, posturers, pothunter, poulterer, poultries, proestrus, profluent, prosateur, prosecute, proteuses, protruded, protrudes, proustite, pterosaur, purported, recompute, resprouts, sporulate, superport, supersoft, supported, supporter, thereupon, turophile, underplot, unstopper, upholster, uppermost, uprooters, upstrokes, uptowners.