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TROOPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Soldiers collectively
Synonyms:
military personnel; soldiery; troops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb troop
Context examples:
See I read here what Jonathan have written:—That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again, brought his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land; who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty’s greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor’s horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I did so, and immediately all the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the scimitar to and fro in my hand.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He then commanded his general (who was an old experienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I returned my thanks, by the interpreter, for so unusual a favour; and some troops being at that time on their march to Nangasac, the commanding officer had orders to convey me safe thither, with particular instructions about the business of the crucifix.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There is likewise a kind of beggarly princes in Europe, not able to make war by themselves, who hire out their troops to richer nations, for so much a day to each man; of which they keep three-fourths to themselves, and it is the best part of their maintenance: such are those in many northern parts of Europe.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
After a short silence, he told me, he did not know how I would take what he was going to say: that in the last general assembly, when the affair of the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offence at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, or a thing ever heard of before among them; the assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest of my species, or command me to swim back to the place whence I came: that the first of these expedients was utterly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural pravity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms’ cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
