'Truant' definitions:
Definition of 'truant'
From: WordNet
adjective
Absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" [syn: truant, awol]
noun
One who is absent from school without permission [syn: truant, hooky player]
noun
Someone who shirks duty [syn: no-show, nonattender, truant]
Definition of 'Truant'
From: GCIDE
- Truant \Tru"ant\, a. Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. [1913 Webster]
- While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Truant'
From: GCIDE
- Truant \Tru"ant\, v. i. [Cf. F. truander.] To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Truant'
From: GCIDE
- Truant \Tru"ant\, v. t. To idle away; to waste. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Truant'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- I have a truant been to chivalry. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. --Sir T. Browne [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'truant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absent,
- absent without leave,
- absentee,
- AWOL,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- Bowery bum,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- clock watcher,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dodger,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- eye-servant,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- loafer,
- loafing,
- lowlife,
- malingerer,
- malingering,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-good,
- old soldier,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- runaway,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- shirking,
- skid-row bum,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- soldier,
- stiff,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- tax dodger,
- tramp,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- wastrel,
- welsher,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch