party vs troop

party

noun
  • A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose. 

  • A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. 

  • A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose. 

  • A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government. 

  • With to: an accessory, someone who takes part. 

  • A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. 

  • A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them. 

  • A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. 

  • A small group of birds or mammals. 

verb
  • To form a party (with). 

  • To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. 

  • To take recreational drugs. 

  • To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. 

adj
  • Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them. 

  • Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries. 

troop

noun
  • A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers. 

  • Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster. 

  • A group of meerkat families living together. 

  • A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general). 

  • A company of actors; a troupe. 

  • A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each. 

  • A particular roll of the drum; a quick march. 

  • A group of baboons. 

  • A group of soldiers; military forces. 

  • A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry. 

  • An individual soldier or member of a military force. 

verb
  • To march on; to go forward in haste. 

  • To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. 

  • To move or march as if in a crowd. 

How often have the words party and troop occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )