Troop vs Knight - What's the difference?
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As a noun troop is a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. As a verb troop is to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. As a proper noun knight is an english status surname for someone who was a mounted soldier.
troop English
Noun
( en noun)
A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
* Shakespeare
- That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
(military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
* Shakespeare
- Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars.
* Macaulay
- His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
(nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
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(label) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
A group of baboons.
A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
(mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
Derived terms
* trooper
* troopship
* troop carrier
Verb
( en verb)
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
* , chapter=5
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
To march on; to go forward in haste.
To move or march as if in a crowd.
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Derived terms
* troop the colour (qualifier)
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knight Etymology 1
From (etyl) knight, kniht, from (etyl) cniht, cneht, ‘to ball up, pinch, compress’.
Noun
( en noun)
A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
Nowadays, a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Synonyms
* (chess piece) horse (rare)
Derived terms
* knight adventurer
* knight adventurous
* knightage
* Knight Bachelor, knight bachelor
* knight-bairn
* knight-banneret
* knight baronet
* knight brother
* knight caligate of arms
* knight-cross
* knight-errant
* knightess
* knightfully
* knight-head
* knighthood
* knightify
* knight in shining armor, knight in shining armour
* knightless
* knightling
* knightly
* Knight Marshal, knight-marshal
* knight-money
* knight of adventurers
* knight of arms
* Knight of Grace
* knight of industry, knight of the industry
* Knight of Justice
* Knight of Malta
* Knight of Parliament
* Knight of Rhodes
* knight of St Crispin
* Knight of St John
* knight of the carpet
* knight of the chamber
* Knight of the Bath
* knight of the blade
* knight of the brush
* knight of the cleaver
* knight of the collar
* Knight of the Commonty
* knight of the cue
* knight of the elbow
* knight of the field
* Knight of the Garter
* knight of the grammar
* knight of the knife
* knight of the needle
* knight of the order of the fork
* knight of the pen
* knight of the pencil
* knight of the pestle
* knight of the post
* knight of the quill
* knight of the rainbow
* knight of the road
* Knight of the Round Table
* Knight of the Rueful Countenance
* knight of the shears
* Knight of the Shire
* knight of the spigot
* Knight of the Spur
* knight of the square flag
* knight of the stick
* knight of the thimble
* Knight of the Thistle
* knight of the vapour
* knight of the wheel
* knight of the whip
* knight of the whipping-post
* Knight of Windsor
* Knights of Columbus
* Knights of Labor
* Knights of Pythias
* knight's cross
* knight-service
* knight's fee
* knightship
* knight's milfoil
* knight's move
* knight's pondwort
* knight's progress
* knight's star
* knight's water-sengreen
* knight's wort
* knight's woundwort
* Knight Templar
* knight wager
* knight-weed
* knight-wife
* Military Knight of Windsor
* Naval Knights of Windsor
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) knighten, , from the noun. Cognate with (etyl) knehten.
Verb
( en verb)
To confer knighthood upon.
- The king knighted the young squire .
(chess) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Synonyms
* dub
Derived terms
* knighted
* knighting
See also
* paladin
* baronet
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