Other forms: troubles, troubled, troubling
Trouble is difficulty or worry, or a situation that brings it. In trouble, cause trouble, engine trouble.
In trouble means in difficulty, and with somebody in authority it means facing consequences. Take the trouble to do something means making the effort. As a verb, to trouble somebody is to disturb them, and sorry to trouble you is a standard British apology. Note troubled, which of a person or a place means having serious problems; troublesome; and that trouble is uncountable in nearly every use.
1nountroubleDifficulty or worry.~95%
“The trouble started at about the fourth invoice.”
2verbdisturbTo disturb or bother somebody.~5%
“Don't trouble your father with it now; he's very busy.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 21 sentences found in the wild and placed 21 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
trouble is difficulty or disturbance.
Vulgar Latin turbulare comes from turba, a crowd or disorder — the same root as turbulent, disturb and turbine. Trouble began as a crowd stirred up, which is a good picture of it.
Latin
turbula — disorderly group, a little crowd or people
Vulgar Latin
*turbulō
Old French
troubler
Middle English
troublen
English, today
trouble
Built from
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA