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Treant vs Truant - What's the difference?

treant | truant |

As nouns the difference between treant and truant

is that treant is (fantasy|gaming) a fictional organism having many characteristics of a tree, but with human-like mobility and facial features while truant is one who is absent without permission, especially from school.

As an adjective truant is

absent without permission, especially from school.

As a verb truant is

to play truant.

treant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (fantasy, gaming) A fictional organism having many characteristics of a tree, but with human-like mobility and facial features.
  • * 1977 — , Monster Manual , page 96
    • Treants' are strangely related to humans and trees, combining features of both species. ...an individual ' treant can cause only one or two normal trees to move and attack as stipulated.

    See also

    * ent

    Anagrams

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    truant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Absent without permission, especially from school.
  • :
  • Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
  • :
  • *1603+ , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 1, Scene 2
  • *:A truant disposition, good my lord.
  • *1772 , , p.149
  • *:While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.

    • Derived terms

    * truant officer

    Noun

    (truants)
  • One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

    • Derived terms

    * play truant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play truant.
    • the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
  • To idle away; to waste.
  • * Ford
    • I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
  • To idle away time.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Lowell
    • By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.