troupe
Americannoun
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troupes
plural
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Synonym Usage
See troop.
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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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Rosalía’s backing troupe wear black, so they disappear in the stage lighting—all except for their arms, popping out of the gloom in long white gloves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The troupe operated from 1958 through 1965, making it the first extended prison theater program in the U.S. launched by prisoners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Deforge arrived in Russia in 2018 while touring with an Italian circus troupe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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
A troupe of actors had come to Elsinore.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
In the past, he has performed with ballet troupes and choirs, or floated just above the heads of the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 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
The hilltop temples echoed with chants, while dance troupes performed with clanging cymbals and bagpipes.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025
Tudyk’s comedy talent developed through extensive study beyond his time in improv troupes, at Julliard or as a Broadway performer.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
Over the next ten hours, they will watch performances by two other high school drama troupes, have dinner, sit through a two-hour musical, and attend a dance.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
Outfitted in caps and gowns, the singer Nellie McKay and her musicians trouped onto the stage of Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening with mischievous smirks on their faces.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2012
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
He trouped with his family, The Four Cohans, in "Jerry Cohan's Irish Hibernia" when he was nine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men turned about and trouped back to the dinghies, while Captain Blizzard stayed behind a moment to speak to Chris.
From Mr. Wicker's Window by Lynd Ward
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
The illness, which sent Olivier to a London hospital last year, will not keep him from trouping before the cameras.
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
Taking over the role of Da with only about 20 hours of rehearsal, says Keith, was "just a matter of trouping it."
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard
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