Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.

• IPA^(key): /tɹuːp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːp
• Homophone: troop

troupe (plural troupes)

1. A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian‎:

     Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party

   • 2020 April 24, Oscar Holland, “How North Korea’s ideology is built on song and dance”, in CNN‎:

     Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.

2. Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

troupe (third-person singular simple present troupes, present participle trouping, simple past and past participle trouped)

1. (intransitive) To tour with a troupe.

• trouper
• super trouper

• trooper

• Appendix:English collective nouns

• Puerto, pouter, tore up, uptore

Back-formation from troupeau.

• IPA^(key): /tʁup/

• Audio:

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troupe f (plural troupes)

1. troop

• (non-military): bande

• en route mauvaise troupe

• → English: troop; troupe
• → Middle Dutch: trop
  • Dutch: troep
    • Afrikaans: troep
• → German: Truppe
  • ⇒ Spanish: tropel
    • → Portuguese: tropel
• → Polish: trupa
• → Romanian: trupă
• → Russian: труппа (truppa)
• → Spanish: tropa
• → Swedish: trupp

• “troupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• poutre, poutré

Unadapted borrowing from French troupe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrup/^[1]
• Rhymes: -up

troupe f (invariable)

1. troupe, company (theatrical)

• putore, reputo, reputò

Unadapted borrowing from French troupe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾup/
• Rhymes: -up

troupe f (plural troupes)

1. troupe

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “troupe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10