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TROOPS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does troops mean?

• TROOPS (noun)
The noun TROOPS has 1 sense:

1. soldiers collectively

Familiarity information: TROOPS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TROOPS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Soldiers collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

military personnel; soldiery; troops

Hypernyms ("troops" is a kind of...):

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "troops"):

friendly (troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces)

hostile (troops belonging to the enemy's military forces)

cavalry; horse; horse cavalry (troops trained to fight on horseback)

garrison (the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place)

Holonyms ("troops" is a member of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

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