Definition of Truant

1. Noun. One who is absent from school without permission.

Exact synonyms: Hooky Player
Generic synonyms: Absentee

2. Adjective. Absent without permission. "The soldier was AWOL for almost a week"
Exact synonyms: Awol
Similar to: Absent
Derivative terms: Awol, Truancy

3. Noun. Someone who shirks duty.
Exact synonyms: No-show, Nonattender
Generic synonyms: Offender, Wrongdoer

Definition of Truant

1. 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.

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

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

4. v. t. To idle away; to waste.

Definition of Truant

1. Adjective. Describing one who is truant, absent without permission, especially from school. ¹

2. Noun. One who is absent without permission, especially from school. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To play truant. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To idle away; to waste. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Truant

1. to stay out of school without permission [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truant

troy
troy grain
troy grains
troy ounce
troy ounces
troy pound
troy unit
troy weight
troyounce
troyounces
troys
truage
truages
truancies
truancy
truant (current term)
truant officer
truanted
truanting
truantly
truantries
truantry
truants
truantship
trub
trubs
trubtall
trubu
trucage
trucages

Literary usage of Truant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Juvenile Offenders by William Douglas Morrison (1897)
"... to day industrial schools and truant schools—Cases for day industrial schools— Training in day industrial schools—truant schools—The object of truant ..."

2. State and County Educational Reorganization: The Revised Constitution and by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1914)
"Definition of habitual truant and school-offender. — Any child within the compulsory school-ages shall be deemed a truant who shall have been absent from ..."

3. Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1901)
"The chief value of truant schools is their efficiency in bringing under school ... Every truant is a living illustration of a weakness in our school system. ..."

4. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (2001)
"(With truant vowes to her owne lips he loues) And dare avow her Beauty, and her Worth, 282 In other armes then hers: to him this Challenge. ..."

5. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Truancy and truant Schools 1862. truant law of 1862. (2 AR bd. of state charities 1865: 109-111.) 1874-1883. Comparative table showing expenses of local ..."

6. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1864)
"THE ROCHESTER truant HOME. On the 30th day of August, 1863, after the close of ... The law under which the truant Home was organized,- was enacted by the ..."

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