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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. one who is absent from school without permission;
[syn: truant, hooky player]

2. someone who shirks duty;
[syn: no-show, nonattender, truant]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. absent without permission;
- Example: "truant schoolboys"
- Example: "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"
[syn: truant, awol]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

truant adj 1: absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" [syn: truant, awol] n 1: one who is absent from school without permission [syn: truant, hooky player] 2: someone who shirks duty [syn: no-show, nonattender, truant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "truant": AWOL, Bowery bum, absent, absent without leave, absentee, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, 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