troupe
Americannoun
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troupes
plural
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Synonym Usage
See troop.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of troupe
1815–25, < French: troop
Explanation
You can call a group of performers a troupe. The kids you dance with are your dance troupe, and the jugglers and clowns at your friend's party might be a circus troupe. If you love performing improvisational comedy, you may want to join a local improv troupe, and if you like the idea of caroling at Christmas time, you can form a troupe of singers to sing carols with in December. Troupe is a French word meaning "company of performers," which earlier meant "company of soldiers." It shares a root with troop.
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On their way off the tarmac, they were greeted by a troupe of folk dance performers and flanked by two rows of teenagers wearing T-shirts bearing photos of Xi.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
When Sudeikis, another Midwesterner, joined the comedy troupe, Hunt began proselytizing about the sport, using PlayStation games to draw in Sudeikis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Oddie was born in Rochdale, near Manchester, and grew up in Birmingham before attending Cambridge University, where he was a member of the illustrious Footlights comedy troupe.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
It’s hellishly complex, and my father was probably the only one in the troupe who could do it justice.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vaudeville troupes traveled the country by rail, performing at sites from small-town opera houses to urban theaters seating several thousand people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Until Friday, Amdjarass hosts dance troupes, musicians, traditional storytellers, craftspeople, cooks and nomadic camel drivers from across the vast region.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Behind him, the production took care of everything else: the energetic dance troupes, sophisticated light and sound backdrops and a full-fledged backing orchestra.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
The Hawaiian steel guitar became a cultural force in America at the turn of the century, popularized by troupes of traveling musicians from Hawaii.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
And then he told me that unfortunately he doesn't know any dance squads, dance groups, dance teams, dance troupes, or dance clubs.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
So she did what came naturally to her: She trouped.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
We trouped down the stairs into a long, narrow, cavelike space burrowing into the hill, taken up almost entirely by a gleaming wood bar.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
More than 400 tour groups, from government agency planners to corporations to architects, have trouped through since the first employees moved in last summer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
His orchestra trouped around Spain, slept in towns, hamlets & villages.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Of course we don't let people feed themselves or their beasts when they come here!" echoed Mrs. Warner, taking hold of Nealie and forcibly leading her into the house, while the others trouped after them.
From The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking by Bessie Marchant
Not long now: The teams are out on the pitch, Sheffield United trouping out first, closely followed by Liverpool.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2020
That appeal has sent “Hamilton” trouping across the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
Lightly amusing narrative of trouping with marionettes, by one of the founders of the group which later be came known as the Yale Puppeteers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick of the child parts she plays so admirably.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Mrs. Vanderpool went in to lunch, reaction and lingering doubts came trouping back.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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