TROOPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trooper mean? 

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

1. a soldier in a motorized army unit

2. a mounted police officer

3. a state police officer

4. a soldier mounted on horseback

  Familiarity information: TROOPER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROOPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soldier in a motorized army unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cavalryman; trooper

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

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

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

cavalry; horse; horse cavalry (troops trained to fight on horseback)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mounted police officer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A state police officer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

state trooper; trooper

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

officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A soldier mounted on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cavalryman; trooper

Context example:

a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount

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

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

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

cuirassier (a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass)

dragoon (a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen)

hussar (a member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress)

lancer ((formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance)

Rough Rider (a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898))

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

cavalry (a highly mobile army unit)

 Context examples 

There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley.

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

I had no difficulty in taking my right place on parade, for there was a trooper with a red nose on a flea-bitten grey, and I had observed that my post was always immediately in front of him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard that Mr. Creakle had not preferred his claim to being a Tartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe of masters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life, charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away, unmercifully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)