Synonyms of the word troop


TROOPCROWD - FLOCK - MARCH - PARADE - PROCESS - PROMENADE - UNIT

troop

  • n. (collective) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
  • n. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company…
  • n. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
  • n. Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
  • n. (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
  • n. (Scouting) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
  • n. (collective) A group of baboons.
  • n. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
  • n. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
  • v. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  • v. To march on; to go forward in haste.
  • v. To move or march as if in a crowd.

crowd

  • v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  • v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
  • v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

flock

  • n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  • n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
  • n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
  • n. A large number of people.
  • v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
  • v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
  • n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
  • n. A lock of wool or hair.
  • n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
  • v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

march

  • n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  • n. A political rally or parade.
  • n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
  • n. Steady forward movement or progression.
  • n. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  • v. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
  • v. To go to war; to make military advances.
  • n. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
  • n. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  • n. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
  • v. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
  • n. (obsolete) Smallage.

parade

  • n. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed…
  • n. Any succession, series, or display of items.
  • n. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
  • n. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
  • n. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
  • n. (Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
  • n. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
  • n. (zoology, collective) (uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.
  • v. (intransitive) To march or to display.
  • v. (transitive) To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
  • v. (transitive) To march past.

process

  • n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
  • n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
  • n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
  • n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
  • n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
  • n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  • n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
  • n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
  • v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
  • v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
  • v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
  • v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

promenade

  • n. (formal) A prom (dance).
  • n. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
  • n. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
  • n. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
  • v. To walk.
  • v. To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

unit

  • n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
  • n. The number one.
  • n. Clipping of international unit.
  • n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
  • n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
  • n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
  • n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
  • n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
  • n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
  • n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
  • n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
  • n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
  • n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
  • n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
  • n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
  • n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
  • n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
  • adj. For each unit.
  • adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

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