Squire vs Troop - What's the difference?
squire | troop |
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(UK, colloquial)
To attend as a squire
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
* 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
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* 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
* Shakespeare
(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
* Macaulay
(nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
(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.
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
* , chapter=5
, title= To march on; to go forward in haste.
To move or march as if in a crowd.
As nouns the difference between squire and troop
is that squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight or squire can be (obsolete) a ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure while troop is a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.As verbs the difference between squire and troop
is that squire is to attend as a squire while troop is to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.squire
English
(wikipedia squire)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(squir)- (Chaucer)
- to squire a lady
- (Goldsmith)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) See square.Noun
(en noun)- But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
- do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
- as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
- twelve foot and a half by the squire .
Anagrams
* *troop
English
Noun
(en noun)- That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
- Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars.
- His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
Derived terms
* trooper * troopship * troop carrierVerb
(en verb)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.}}
