Troop

Noun

 * 1) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
 * 2)  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").
 * 5)  A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
 * 6) A particular roll of the drum
 * 7) a unit of girl or boy scouts
 * 8) an orderly crowd
 * 9)  Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.

Derived terms

 * trooper
 * troopship
 * troop carrier

Verb

 * 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”.

Derived terms

 * troop the colour

Thesaurus
KP, age group, ambulate, armed forces, army, army group, assemblage, assembly, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, clique, cohort, collection, colony, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, drift, drive, drove, faction, field army, field train, file, fleet, flock, flying column, foot it, forces, gam, gang, garrison, gathering, group, grouping, groupment, herd, hoof, host, in-group, junta, kennel, kitchen police, legion, litter, maniple, military, mob, movement, multitude, organization, out-group, outfit, pace, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, pod, posse, pride, rank, regiment, salon, school, section, set, shoal, skulk, sloth, soldiers, squad, squadron, stable, step, string, tactical unit, task force, team, train, traipse, tread, tribe, trip, troopers, troupe, unit, wing

Etymology
Attested in English since 1545, from troupe: (back-formation of troupeau:, diminutive of  troppus "flock") and  troupe: (from  trope "band, company, troop"), both of  origin from  *undefined: from  from. Akin to þorp, þrop "village, farm, estate" (Modern  thorp),  þorp,  þorp.

Noun

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 * Serbo-Croatian: trupa
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 * Swahili: vikosi


 * Catalan: soldats
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 * Swahili: vikosi


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: lippukunta


 * Norwegian: tropp
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Anagrams

 * proto