troop

1. 1.

   march in a procession

   “the veterans paraded down the street”

   Synonymsparadepromenade

   Broadermarch
2. 2.

   move or march as if in a crowd

   “They children trooped into the room”

   Broadermarch

Other forms of troop

plural

troops·

past tense

trooped·

present participle

trooping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about troop

What does troop mean?

troop means "a group of soldiers". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in troop?

troop has 1 syllable: troop. In IPA it is /ˈtɹup/.

What is another word for troop?

Close synonyms include scout troop, scout group, flock, parade, promenade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is troop a common word?

troop is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with troop?

1 word rhymes with troop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.