Truant Definition
tro͝oənt
truants
noun
truants
A lazy, idle person.
Webster's New World
A pupil who stays away from school without permission.
Webster's New World
A person who neglects his or her work or duties.
Webster's New World
adjective
That is a truant; that plays truant.
Webster's New World
Absent without permission, especially from school.
He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendances to meet the requirement.
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Idle; shiftless.
Webster's New World
Characteristic of a truant; errant; straying.
Webster's New World
Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
A truant fly can get in your eye.
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Synonyms:
verb
truants
To be or play truant.
Webster's New World
To idle away time.
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Other Word Forms of Truant
Noun
Singular:
truant
Plural:
truantsOrigin of Truant
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From Middle English truant, truand, trewande, trowant (= Middle Dutch trouwant, trawant, truwant), from Old French truand, truant (“a vagabond, beggar, rogue", also "beggarly, roguish"), of Celtic origin, perhaps from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truaghan, Irish trogha (“destitute"), trogán, Breton truc (“beggar"), Welsh tru.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English beggar from Old French terə-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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