trop
adverb
too; too much or too many.
trop
1 American
[tr oh]
/ troʊ /
adverb
French.
trop-
2
American
trop.
3
American
abbreviation
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tropic.
-
tropical.
Usage
What does trop- mean? Trop- is a combining form used like a prefix variously meaning "turn," "reaction, response,” or "change." It is used in some technical terms. Trop- ultimately comes from the Greek trópos, “turn," and tropḗ, "a turning." The Greek trópos is also the source of the words trope and tropical. It’s your turn to make the connection between “turning,” figures of speech, and the tropics at our entries for the words. Trop- is a variant of tropo-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use tropo- article. Corresponding forms of trop- and tropo- combined to the end of words are -trope, -tropic, -tropism, -tropous, and -tropy. Learn about their specific applications in our Words That Use articles for the forms.
Example Sentences
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Likewise, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu claims there’s a stark difference between her and her role of Sylvie, Madeline’s trop chic Parisian business rival.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
“But then there’s the mean and insensitive snicker, Disrespectful and low on civility. It’s a bit un peu trop for a child of your taste And highly refined sensibility.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2019
In the silences, she often sighed, “Je suis trop blasé.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2017
I’ll offer, and she doubles over, pink-faced, declaring me de trop.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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