Library / English Dictionary

TROOP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of soldiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("troop" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "troop"):

shock troops (soldiers who are specially trained and armed to lead an assault)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("troop" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Holonyms ("troop" is a member of...):

cavalry (a highly mobile army unit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An orderly crowd

Example:

a troop of children

Synonyms:

flock; troop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("troop" is a kind of...):

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

Derivation:

troop (move or march as if in a crowd)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A unit of Girl or Boy Scouts

Synonyms:

scout group; scout troop; troop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("troop" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or march as if in a crowd

Example:

They children trooped into the room

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "troop" is one way to...):

march (walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

The children troop to the playground

Derivation:

troop (an orderly crowd)

Sense 2

Meaning:

March in a procession

Example:

the veterans paraded down the street

Synonyms:

parade; promenade; troop

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "troop" is one way to...):

march; process (march in a procession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children troop to the playground

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 Context examples: 

Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so hasten the war which was always really at loading point.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The cry he gave was echoed not only by his companions on board but by a great number of voices from the shore, and looking in that direction I saw the other pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling into their places in the boats.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A groan of disappointment came up from below, and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the manager.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed to hem me in on every side when I went down towards the long narrow street.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Were we a troop of mountain goats we might do so, answered Sir William Felton, but it is not to be passed by a company of horsemen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instead of returning to the king, however, he conducted his troop by byways back to the forest, and called forth Iron Hans.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I saw Cæsar and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to engage.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Soldier onward and upward anyway because, as I wrote last month, you are impressing VIPs with your good organizational skills and ability to enthusiastically rally the troops.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)