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Truant - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As an adjective truant

is absent without permission, especially from school.

As a noun truant

is one who is absent without permission, especially from school.

As a verb truant

is to play truant.

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.

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.