troop – English noun declension

English noun forms of troop

Noun: troop
Singulartroop
Pluraltroops

Sample Sentences

  • That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]
  • Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck? [c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 147, column 2:]
  • Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
  • His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • 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 [1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark:]
  • 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.”
  • One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded. [2018 August 8, Donald R. White, Death In a Lonely Place, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82:]
  • Although the mission failed, at least 5 ISIL militants were killed, however 1 American troop was wounded. According to the reports, Jordan had a role in the operation and that one Jordanian soldier had been wounded as well. [(Can we date this quote?), Victor Grant-Lawrence, Conspiracy Theories And Stuff, Lulu.com, →ISBN:]
  • 2022, CNN, First Russian troop to speak out publicly against Putin’s war. Hear what he has to say (archived)
  • troop of meerkats is usually made up of two or three family groups. [2011, Mammals of the Southern Hemisphere, Marshall Cavendish Reference, page 178:]

Etymology

1. Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe, from Back-formation from troupeau, from Middle French trope, troupe, from Old French trope, trupe, of unknown origin. Compare Early Medieval Latin troppus.
2. Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp, dorp, and trip. Cognate with German Dorf (“village”). See: French Nouns 'troupe', German Nouns 'Dorf'.

Verbs referencing "troop"

Latin Nouns trabs, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tropp.