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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)
- (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
- (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Coxe to this entry?)
- (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.”
- (collective) A group of baboons.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- (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)
- To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
- To march on; to go forward in haste.
- 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)
- (music, literature, linguistics) trope
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convention
English
Etymology
Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventi? (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveni? (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veni? (“come”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?v?n.??n/, /?k?n?v?n.??n/
Noun
convention (plural conventions)
- A meeting or gathering.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- A formal agreement, contract or pact.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP ? V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
optional.)
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conventi?, conventi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.v??.sj??/
Noun
convention f (plural conventions)
- convention, agreement
- convention (formal meeting)
- convention (conventionally standardised choice)
Derived terms
- convention collective
Related terms
- conventionalisme m
- conventionnel
- conventionner
- convenir
Further reading
- “convention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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