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TRUANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does truant mean?
• TRUANT (noun)
The noun TRUANT has 2 senses:
1. one who is absent from school without permission
Familiarity information: TRUANT used as a noun is rare.
• TRUANT (adjective)
The adjective TRUANT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TRUANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One who is absent from school without permission
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
hooky player; truant
Hypernyms ("truant" is a kind of...):
absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who shirks duty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
no-show; nonattender; truant
Hypernyms ("truant" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Absent without permission
Synonyms:
awol; truant
Context example:
the soldier was AWOL for almost a week
Similar:
absent (not being in a specified place)
Derivation:
truancy (failure to attend (especially school))
Context examples
Truant! truant! he added, when he had paused an instant.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now that Mr. Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports, for Laurie was always playing truant and running over to the Marches'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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