About The Word Truant
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Truant
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Truant: absent | awol | hooky player | nonattender | no-show Related Terms | Find terms related to Truant: See Also | absentee | offender | wrongdoer Truant In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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