PARATROOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paratroops mean? 

• PARATROOPS (noun)
  The noun PARATROOPS has 1 sense:

1. infantry trained and equipped to parachute

  Familiarity information: PARATROOPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARATROOPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Infantry trained and equipped to parachute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

foot; infantry (an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot)

Meronyms (members of "paratroops"):

para; paratrooper (a soldier in the paratroops)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)