Truant
['truːənt]
Definition
(noun.) one who is absent from school without permission.
(adj.) absent without permission; 'truant schoolboys'; 'the soldier was AWOL for almost a week' .
Checker: Mara--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Phelps
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Idler, loiterer, shirk.
Inputed by Bella
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vagabond, loitering, idling, shirking, vagrant, loose, apostate, renegade
ANT:Sedulous, domestic, Industrious, diligent, loyal, adherent, faithful, attached
Edited by Elena
Definition
n. an idler: a boy who idly or without excuse absents himself from school.—adj. wandering from duty: loitering: idle.—v.i. to play truant.—ns. Tru′ancy Tru′antship.—Play truant to stay from school without leave.
Checker: Lola
Examples
- Husbands will play the truant, you know. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When I want to be busy with books, I am often playing truant among my thoughts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Should he go and fetch the truant? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Now this was George's place when he dined at home; and his cover, as we said, was laid for him in expectation of that truant's return. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You also, truant! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They rushed into the kitchen, whither the truants had repaired, and at once obtained rather more than a glimmering of the real state of the case. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Ronald