English Dictionary

troop

/tɹuːp/

noun

(collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general). / (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.

The troop of soldiers marched in formation.

意味（1）

(collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).

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

意味（2）

(military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.

意味（3）

A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.

意味（4）

(chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.

Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?

意味（5）

(nonstandard) An individual soldier or member of a military force.

One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded.

意味（6）

(nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.

In order to form the new troop to a greater degree of perfection, the four principal actors were placed in the seminary of the cadets

意味（7）

(Scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.

Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership, page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”

意味（8）

(collective) A group of baboons.

意味（9）

A group of meerkat families living together.

意味（10）

A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

意味（11）

(mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.