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troupe

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //tɹuːp//

A company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.

noun

  1. 1

    A company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.

    Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party

    Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.

  2. 2

    Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

Etymology

Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.

verb

  1. 1

    To tour with a troupe.

Forms

plural
troupes
past tense
trouped
past participle
trouped
present participle
trouping
third person singular
troupes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).