troupe
/truːp
/noun
A group of dancers, actors, or other entertainers who tour to different venues: a dance troupe a troupe of singers...
- There is a beauty to the troupes of dancers and actors, but writers have a different fate.
- More than half of them became ordinary dancers in dance troupes.
- Six separate dance troupes are currently touring the world with this winner of nine global awards.
Synonyms
group, company, band, ensemble, set;
cast
Origin
Early 19th century: from French, literally 'troop'.
Rhymes
- noctambule
- noctambulism
- noctambulist
- noctambulistic
- noctambulous
- noctiflorous
- noctiluca
- noctilucal
- noctilucence
- noctilucent cloud
- noctivagant
- noctivagate
- noctivagation
- noctivagator
- noctograph
- noctovision
- noctovisor
- unhatched
- UNHCR
- unhealed
- unhealthful
- unhealthfulness
- unhealthily
- unhealthiness
- unhealthy