troupe

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Other forms: troupes

You can call a group of performers a troupe. The kids you dance with are your dance troupe, and the jugglers and clowns at your friend's party might be a circus troupe.

If you love performing improvisational comedy, you may want to join a local improv troupe, and if you like the idea of caroling at Christmas time, you can form a troupe of singers to sing carols with in December. Troupe is a French word meaning "company of performers," which earlier meant "company of soldiers." It shares a root with troop.

Definitions of troupe

1. noun

   an organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
   synonyms: company

   types:

   opera company

   a company that produces operas

   theater company

   a company that produces plays

   ballet company

   a company that produces ballets

   Greek chorus, chorus

   a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play

   circus

   a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals

   minstrel show

   a troupe of performers in blackface

   minstrelsy

   a troupe of minstrels

   repertory company, stock company

   a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire

   type of:

   organisation, organization

   a group of people who work together