TROOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troop mean? 

• TROOP (noun)
  The noun TROOP has 4 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: TROOP used as a noun is uncommon.

• TROOP (verb)
  The verb TROOP has 2 senses:

1. march in a procession

2. move or march as if in a crowd

  Familiarity information: TROOP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROOP (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:

A unit of Girl or Boy Scouts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

scout group; scout troop; troop

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

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

An orderly crowd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

flock; troop

Context example:

a troop of children

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)

• TROOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they troop    ... he / she / it troops   
Past simple: trooped   
Past participle: trooped   
-ing form: trooping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

March in a procession

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

parade; promenade; troop

Context example:

the veterans paraded down the street

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move or march as if in a crowd

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

They children trooped into the room

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)

 Context examples 

“It is well to have a learned clerk in every troop,” said Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle seized the lantern from the fellow’s hand, and we all trooped behind him down the lane.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop of his best horses twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain.

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

Then the chemistry of vision would begin to work, and they would troop in review across his mind, each, by contrast, multiplying Ruth's glories.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then the fisherman went home; and as he came close to the palace he saw a troop of soldiers, and heard the sound of drums and trumpets.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The hunters came trooping on deck with shot-guns and ammunition-boxes, and, most unusual, their rifles.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Sun in your sign will strengthen your sense of purpose and authority, making it easier for you to rally the troops and increase productivity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In trooped the whole family, and everyone was hugged and kissed all over again, and after several vain attempts, the three wanderers were set down to be looked at and exulted over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower—and a troop of tidy, happy villages please me better than the finest banditti in the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)