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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This all-new incarnation of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders was unlike anything professional sports had seen: an elite troupe of hyperproficient showgirls with pompoms, virtuosically twirling and leg-kicking their way through choreographed routines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Everyone needed to feel like they were part of the same circus troupe traveling across the country. There weren’t separate camps of actors, circus artists, dancers, musicians, puppeteers or singers. ”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Xi and his wife were greeted on the tarmac by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the first lady, as well as a performance by an Egyptian folk dance troupe.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 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
So I invited him into our troupe, hoping to find answers to my questions.
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
Immersive Invitational is a way, hopefully, to expose audiences to various troupes to expand their reach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
In another age, this hall had been dressing rooms and rehearsal spaces for the Yiddish theater troupes who made their home on Second Avenue.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
The theater meant Broadway, and the road companies that once trouped every town hall in the land had long since bowed to the onslaughts of celluloid and popcorn.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then they all trouped to the large table in this huge dining-hall.
From His Hour by Elinor Glyn
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
Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there is much less entertainment these days in a France where only trained polar bears would find trouping comfortable.
From Time Magazine Archive
And ten-twent-thirt trouping, and county-fair spieling, and selling Dr. Thunder Rapids' Choctaw Herbal Sensitizer.
From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
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