troops

English

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Noun

troops

1. Plural form of troop
2. military personnel in uniform

   There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.

Translations

military personnel in uniform

• Armenian: զորք (hy) (zork’) 
• Dutch: troepen (nl) m pl
• Finnish: joukko (fi), sotilaat (fi)
• French: troupes (fr) f pl
• German: Truppen (de) pl
• Italian: truppe (it) pl
• Khmer: ក្រុមទាហាន (km) (krom tiehien)

• Latin: cōpiae (la) f pl
• Latvian: kareivji (lv) m
• Portuguese: tropas (pt) f pl
• Russian: войска (ru) (vojská) n pl 
• Spanish: tropas (es) f pl
• Welsh: milwyr (cy) m pl

Synonyms

• soldiers

Verb

troops

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of troop.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: matters · physical · spring · #896: troops · meeting · corner · spite