Other forms: troops
A troop is a body of soldiers, or a group moving together. Send in the troops, a troop of scouts, troops on the ground.
In the plural it means soldiers generally, so a thousand troops is a thousand people. In the singular it is a specific unit, and in cavalry it is the equivalent of a platoon.
1nountroopA body of soldiers, or a group moving together.
“A troop of monkeys ran across the road in front of our car.”
troop is a group.
French troupe names a company, from a root meaning a flock or herd.
Proto-Indo-European
*treb-
Old French
trope
Middle French
trope
French
troupe
English, today
troop
Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe, from a back-formation from troupeau, from Middle French trope, troupe, from Old French trope, trupe, of unknown origin. Compare la-eme troppus. a doublet of troupe, and possibly also of a doublet of thorp and dorp and trip. Cognate with German Dorf (“village”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA