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truant |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. --Lowell. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Truant \Tru"ant\, v. t. To idle away to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. --Ford. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. --Shak. {To play truant}, to stray away to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave --Sir T. Browne From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 --Trumbull. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: truant adj : absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" [syn: {awol}] n 1: one who is absent from school without permission [syn: {hooky player}] 2: someone who shirks duty [syn: {no-show}, {nonattender}]
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