TROUPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troupe mean? 

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

1. organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

company; troupe

Context example:

the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel

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

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Meronyms (members of "troupe"):

cast; cast of characters; dramatis personae (the actors in a play)

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

opera company (a company that produces operas)

theater company (a company that produces plays)

ballet company (a company that produces ballets)

chorus; Greek chorus (a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play)

circus (a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals)

minstrel show (a troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes)

minstrelsy (a troupe of minstrels)