name
Meaning 1
plural of Troop
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
troops
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/tɹuːps/
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rhymes with -uːps
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CMU ARPABET: T R UW1 P S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
plural of troop
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Military personnel in uniform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- There were 10,000 troops in Iraq.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
third-person singular simple present indicative of troop
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
soldiers collectively
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: military personnel, soldiery
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: force, personnel
Narrower terms: friendly, hostile, cavalry, horse cavalry, horse, garrison
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قُوَّات (quwwāt) — military personnel in uniform
- Arabic: عَسْكَرِيَّة (ʕaskariyya) — military personnel in uniform
- Armenian: զորք (zorkʻ) — military personnel in uniform
- Azerbaijani: qoşun — military personnel in uniform
- Belarusian: во́йскі (vójski) — military personnel in uniform
- Bulgarian: войски́ (vojskí) — military personnel in uniform
- Chinese Mandarin: 軍隊 /军队 (jūnduì) — military personnel in uniform
- Czech: armáda — military personnel in uniform
- Czech: vojsko — military personnel in uniform
- Danish: tropper — military personnel in uniform
- Danish: militær — military personnel in uniform
- Dutch: troepen — military personnel in uniform
- Esperanto: trupoj — military personnel in uniform
- Faroese: herlið — military personnel in uniform
- Finnish: joukko — military personnel in uniform
- Finnish: sotilaat — military personnel in uniform
- Finnish: sotajoukko — military personnel in uniform
- French: troupes — military personnel in uniform
- Galician: tropas — military personnel in uniform
- German: Truppen — military personnel in uniform
- Icelandic: herlið — military personnel in uniform
- Indonesian: pasukan — military personnel in uniform
- Italian: truppe — military personnel in uniform
- Japanese: 軍隊 (guntai) — military personnel in uniform
- Khmer: ក្រុមទាហាន (krom tiəhaan) — military personnel in uniform
- Korean: 군대 (gundae) — military personnel in uniform
- Latin: cōpiae — military personnel in uniform
- Latvian: kareivji — military personnel in uniform
- Macedonian: во́јска (vójska) — military personnel in uniform
- Macedonian: во́јски (vójski) — military personnel in uniform
- Norwegian Bokmål: tropp — military personnel in uniform
- Norwegian Bokmål: troppestyrke — military personnel in uniform
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tropp — military personnel in uniform
- Norwegian Nynorsk: troppestyrke — military personnel in uniform
- Iranian Persian: نیرویِ نِظامی (niru-ye nezâmi) — military personnel in uniform
- Portuguese: tropas — military personnel in uniform
- Russian: войска́ (vojská) — military personnel in uniform
- Spanish: tropas — military personnel in uniform
- Spanish: soldados — military personnel in uniform
- Swedish: trupp — military personnel in uniform
- Swedish: truppstyrka — military personnel in uniform
- Thai: การทหาร (gaan-tá-hǎan) — military personnel in uniform
- Ukrainian: війська́ (vijsʹká) — military personnel in uniform
- Urdu: سِپاہ (sipāh) — military personnel in uniform
- Urdu: فَوج (fauj) — military personnel in uniform
- Welsh: milwyr — military personnel in uniform
- Yiddish: מיליטער (militer) — military personnel in uniform
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