troupe

See also: Troupe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹuːp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːp
• Homophone: troop

Noun

troupe (plural troupes)

1. A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian‎:

     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

   • 2020 April 24, Oscar Holland, “How North Korea’s ideology is built on song and dance”, in CNN‎:

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

2. Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

Derived terms

• ballet troupe

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *treb- (0 c, 12 e)

Translations

company of actors, etc.

Bulgarian: трупа (bg) f (trupa) Chinese: Mandarin: 團 / 团 (zh) (tuán) Finnish: ryhmä (fi) French: troupe (fr) f German: Truppe (de) f Hungarian: színtársulat (hu), trupp (hu) Irish: compántas m Japanese: 団 (ja) (だん, dan) Maori: whare karioi, tira kaitapere (of actors), tira kanikani (of dancers) Portuguese: trupe (pt) f Russian: тру́ппа (ru) f (trúppa) Swedish: trupp (sv) c Yiddish: טרופּע f (trupe)

any group of people

Finnish: ryhmä (fi) German: Truppe (de) f Hungarian: csoport (hu) Russian: гру́ппа (ru) (grúppa), тру́ппа (ru) f (trúppa) Swedish: trupp (sv) c

Verb

troupe (third-person singular simple present troupes, present participle trouping, simple past and past participle trouped)

1. (intransitive) To tour with a troupe.

Derived terms

• trouper
• super trouper

Related terms

• trooper

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• Puerto, pouter, tore up, uptore

French

Etymology

Back-formation from troupeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁup/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

troupe f (plural troupes)

1. troop

Synonyms

• (non-military): bande

Derived terms

• en route mauvaise troupe

Descendants

• → English: troop; troupe
• → Middle Dutch: trop
  • Dutch: troep
    • Afrikaans: troep
• → German: Truppe
  • ⇒ Spanish: tropel
    • → Portuguese: tropel
• → Polish: trupa
• → Romanian: trupă
• → Russian: труппа (truppa)
• → Spanish: tropa
• → Swedish: trupp

Further reading

• “troupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• poutre, poutré