troupe

[ troop ]

noun

1. a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.

verb (used without object)

, trouped, troup·ing.

1. to travel as a member of a theatrical company; barnstorm.

troupe

/ truːp /

noun

1. a company of actors or other performers, esp one that travels

verb

1. intr (esp of actors) to move or travel in a group

Word History and Origins

Origin of troupe¹

1815–25, Americanism; < French: troop

Word History and Origins

Origin of troupe¹

C19: from French; see troop

Synonym Study

See troop.

Example Sentences

Spanish director Joan Font douses this version of the classic story with some playfulness, recruiting his performance troupe Els Comediants to tell the tale as old as time.

From Washington Post

As the audience watches on, the team will prompt the AI to generate a script — which a troupe of actors will then perform, despite never having seen the lines before.

From Time

By 2012, his idea for “The Visitors” had fully developed, and the troupe descended on the house in August.

From Washington Post

What gives the film its greatest appeal, of course, is the chance it affords to see this legendary performance troupe in action.

From Washington Blade

Photo captions in an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the theater troupe in the photographs and the location where the photographs were taken.

From Washington Post

Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, and a host of others got their start with the improv troupe.

From The Daily Beast

Newman asked the audience, referring to a comedy troupe that preceded Newman.

From The Daily Beast

He met and married his first wife, Jacqueline Witte, in 1949, when they were members of an acting troupe in Illinois.

From The Daily Beast

After brief runs in community theater and college, she hit the road with a Renaissance fair troupe.

From The Daily Beast

It was dark and somewhat stuffy, and it was “home” to a troupe of six.

From The Daily Beast

There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.

From Project Gutenberg

Toute la nuit ce ne fust que haranguer, chanter, danser; car telle est la vie de toutes ces gens lorsqu'ils sont en troupe.

From Project Gutenberg

He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith Troupe would not sound as well as Homer.

From Project Gutenberg

And there came news that the king was in some gambling house with a troupe of that archfiend's spies.

From Project Gutenberg

The first playhouse, we should remember, was not erected by a troupe of actors, but by a money-seeking individual.

From Project Gutenberg

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