Word Meanings - TROOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery;

Additional info about word: TROOP

Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery. 4. A company of stageplayers; a troupe. W. Coxe. (more info) uncertain origin; cf. Icel. þorp a hamlet, village, G. dorf a village, dial. G. dorf a meeting. Norw. torp a little farm, a crowd, 1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. That which should accompany old age --As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends --I must not look to have. Shak. 2. Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. Shak. His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TROOP)

• Company
• Aggregation
• association
• union
• sodality
• order
• fraternity
• guild
• corporation
• society
• community
• assemblage
• assembly
• crew
• posse
• gang
• troop
• audience
• congregation
• concourse
• Corps
• Body
• regiment
• band
• squadron
• company
• Swarm
• Multitude
• crowd
• throng
• cluster
• host
• mass
• press
• bevy
• flock
• drove
• herd
• horde
• shoal
• army
• myriad
• inundation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TROOP)

• Disperse
• scatter
• separate
• segregate
• Relax
• inhibit
• persuade
• entice
• allure
• solicit
• touch
• skim
• graze
• free
• liberate
• ease
• avoid
• relieve

Related words: (words related to TROOP)

• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• GUILDABLE
  Liable to a tax.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• SHOAL
  A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller. (more info) to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin
• POSSE
  See VOCABULARY
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• CORPORATION
  A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Note: Corporations are aggregate or
• GUILDHALL
  The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• ELFLOCK
  Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.