troupe

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

troupe, n. [F., troop. See Troop.].

 A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

troupe, n. a company of actors or acrobats etc.

Etymology

F, = TROOP

THESAURUS

troupe

act, act as foil, acting company, age group, appear, band, barnstorm, battalion, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, cast of characters, characters, chorus, circus troupe, clique, cohort, come out, company, complement, contingent, corps, corps de ballet, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, dramatis personae, emote, emotionalize, ensemble, faction, fleet, gang, get top billing, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, junta, mime, mob, movement, out-group, outfit, pack, pantomime, party, patter, peer group, perform, phalanx, platoon, play, play the lead, playact, posse, regiment, register, repertory company, salon, set, sketch, squad, stable, star, steal the show, stock company, stooge, string, supporting cast, team, tread the boards, tribe, troop, upstage, wing

ROGET THESAURUS

troupe

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.