troop
noun
[ truːp ]
• soldiers or armed forces.
• "UN peacekeeping troops"
Similar:
soldiers,
armed forces,
service men,
men,
service women,
the services,
the army,
the military,
soldiery,
• a cavalry unit commanded by a captain.
• a group of people or animals of a particular kind.
• "a troop of musicians"
Similar:
group,
party,
band,
gang,
bevy,
body,
company,
troupe,
assemblage,
gathering,
crowd,
throng,
horde,
pack,
drove,
flock,
swarm,
stream,
multitude,
host,
army,
cohort,
mob,
corps,
contingent,
squad,
detachment,
unit,
detail,
patrol,
bunch,
gaggle,
crew,
posse,
load,
troop
verb
• (of a group of people) come or go together or in large numbers.
• "the girls trooped in for dinner"
Similar:
walk,
march,
file,
straggle,
flock,
crowd,
throng,
stream,
swarm,
surge,
spill,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French troupe, back-formation from troupeau, diminutive of medieval Latin troppus ‘flock’, probably of Germanic origin.
