trooper

Speech parts

1. trooper - Noun

2. trooper - Verb

Meaning

A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

horseman dragoon patrolman soldier fighter warrior policeman combatant cop cavalryman police officer lawman serviceman state trooper enlisted man
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Antonyms

craven castaway chicken coward failure beat
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Hypernyms

soldier officer policeman police officer

Hyponyms

hussar lancer dragoon cuirassier rough rider

Phrases with the word

infantry trooper trooper hat regular trooper former trooper basic trooper mounted trooper

Anagrams

potrero

Examples

I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car. Bill Bryson

To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed, And a trooper of the Empress, if you please. Rudyard Kipling

Not a single Storm Trooper would have followed Röhm. The whole body was merely a revolt of leaders, and only quite a small group of the leaders were willing to take part. Viktor Lutze

A trooper fights for honor ... or from loyalty. Or for loot sometimes. But he waits for pay. He will not wait without it, because when there is no fighting there is no honor to win, no flag to die for, no loot to gain. Gene Wolfe

Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi. Patrick Rothfuss

A young trooper should have an old horse. Henry George Bohn

Close letter words and terms

troop transport troopbird troope trooper hat Troopergate troopfowl