Definitions for: Truant


[n] someone who shirks duty
[n] one who is absent from school without permission
[adj] absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"



Webster (1913) Definition: Tru"ant, n. [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar;
of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable,
truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor,
distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.]
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one
who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer;
a shirk. --Dryden.

I have a truant been to chivalry. --Shak.

To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to
stay out of school without leave. --Sir T. Browne


Tru"ant, a.
Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and
shirking duty; as, a truant boy.

While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on
Olympus' side. --Trumbull.


Tru"ant, v. i. [Cf. F. truander.]
To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
--Shak.

By this means they lost their time and truanted on the
fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. --Lowell.


Tru"ant, v. t.
To idle away; to waste. [R.]

I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. --Ford.

Synonyms: absent, awol, hooky player, nonattender, no-show

See Also: absentee, offender, wrongdoer

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