• (British) IPA: /tɹuːp/　
• (America) IPA: /tɹup/

troop (plural troops)

1. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:

     That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.

2. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
3. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
4. Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

5. (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
6. (Scouting) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
7. (collective) A group of baboons.
8. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
9. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.

• Italian: truppe
• Russian: тру́ппа

• Russian: отря́д

• Russian: отря́д

• French: troupe
• German: Truppe
• Portuguese: tropa
• Russian: войско

troop (troops, present participle trooping; past and past participle trooped)

1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
3. To move or march as if in a crowd.

   The children trooped into the room.

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