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troop

English

Etymology

Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe (back-formation of troupeau, diminutive of Medieval Latin troppus "flock") and Middle French trouppe (from Old French trope (band, company, troop)), both of Germanic origin from Frankish *thorp (assembly, gathering), from Proto-Germanic *þurp? (village, land, estate), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (dwelling, settlement). Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /t?u?p/
  • (US) IPA(key): /t?up/
  • Rhymes: -u?p
  • Homophone: troupe

Noun

troop (plural troops)

  1. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
  2. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
  3. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
  4. (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
  5. (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Coxe to this entry?)
  6. (Scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
    • Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?[1], page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
  7. (collective) A group of baboons.
  8. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
  9. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.

Derived terms

  • troop carrier
  • trooper
  • troop horse
  • troopship
  • troop train

Translations

Verb

troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)

  1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
  3. To move or march as if in a crowd.

Derived terms

  • troop the colour (British, military)

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:English collective nouns

References

  • “troop” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “troop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

  • Porto, Proto, porto, porto-, proot, proto, proto-, tropo, tropo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)

  1. (music, literature, linguistics) trope

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club

English

Etymology

From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (cudgel), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb- (log, block), from *gel- (to ball up, conglomerate, amass). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (bulb), German Kolben (butt, bulb, club).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kl?b, IPA(key): /kl?b/
  • Rhymes: -?b

Noun

club (plural clubs)

  1. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
    • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. [] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
      • 1783, Benjamin Franklin:[1]
        He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
  2. A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.
    1. An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
  3. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
    • 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary
      first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
  4. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
  5. A black clover shape (?), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
    1. A playing card marked with such a symbol.
  6. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
  7. A club sandwich.
    • 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)
      Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
  8. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

Synonyms

  • (association of members): confraternity
  • (weapon): cudgel
  • (sports association): team

Hyponyms

  • chess club
  • sports club

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ? Tokelauan: kalapu

Translations

Verb

club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)

  1. (transitive) To hit with a club.
    He clubbed the poor dog.
  2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
    • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  4. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
    We went clubbing in Ibiza.
    When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
  5. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
    • 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne
      The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
  6. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
    to club the expense
  7. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
  8. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
  9. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
    to club exertions
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
      For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
  10. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Derived terms

  • clubbing
  • go clubbing

Translations


Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Noun

club m (plural clubs)

  1. club (association)
  2. (golf) club

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kl?p/
  • Hyphenation: club
  • Rhymes: -?p

Noun

club m (plural clubs, diminutive clubje n)

  1. club, association
  2. (golf) club

Derived terms

  • clubhuis
  • damclub
  • golfclub
  • handbalclub
  • schaakclub
  • skiclub
  • stamclub
  • tennisclub
  • voetbalclub

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

  • (France) IPA(key): /klœb/, /klyb/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /kl?b/

Noun

club m (plural clubs)

  1. club (association)
  2. (golf) club

Synonyms

  • (golf club): bâton (Quebec)

Derived terms

  • bienvenue au club

Further reading

  • “club” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?klab/, /?kl?b/

Noun

club m (invariable)

  1. club (association)
  2. club (golf implement)

Middle English

Noun

club

  1. Alternative form of clubbe

Romanian

Etymology

From French club.

Noun

club n (plural cluburi)

  1. club

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?klub/, [?klu??]

Noun

club m (plural clubs or clubes)

  1. club (association)
    Synonyms: asociación, cofradía, gremio

Derived terms

  • club de fans
  • club nocturno

Further reading

  • “club” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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