truant

[Tru·ant]

A truant is a student who is out of school without permission. If you skip school to go shopping with your friends, you are a truant.

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One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

Noun
someone who shirks duty

Noun
one who is absent from school without permission

Adjective S.
absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

n.
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

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

v. i.
To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.

v. t.
To idle away; to waste.

Truant

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

Truant

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.

Truant

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.

Truant

Tru"ant, v. t. To idle away; to waste. [R.]
I dare not be the author Of truanting the time.

One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

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

To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.

To idle away; to waste.

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Usage Examples

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

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