TROOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troops mean? 

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

1. soldiers collectively

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROOPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soldiers collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

military personnel; soldiery; troops

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

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Domain category:

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

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

friendly (troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces)

hostile (troops belonging to the enemy's military forces)

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

garrison (the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place)

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

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

 Context examples 

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)

“Take back your horse and your troops, and give me my three-legged horse again.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

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)

From all sides the free companions had trooped in, until not less than twelve thousand of these veteran troops were cantoned along the frontiers of Navarre.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

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)

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)

Was it not this Dracula, indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey-land; who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the mean time he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops (who then attended him) to surround me at a distance, with their bows and arrows just ready to discharge; but I did not observe it, for mine eyes were wholly fixed upon his majesty.

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

Whilst Chandos had been conversing with the two knights a continuous stream of suitors had been ushered in, adventurers seeking to sell their swords and merchants clamoring over some grievance, a ship detained for the carriage of troops, or a tun of sweet wine which had the bottom knocked out by a troop of thirsty archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)