Thesaurus: truant

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1. 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.
2. a. Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
3. v. i. To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
4. v. t. To idle away; to waste.
5. adj. absent without permission
6. n. one who is absent from school without permission
7. n. someone who shirks duty
8. 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 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. 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. To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. Ford.
9. One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, onewho 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 ofschool without leave. Sir T. Browne
10. j:80/n:20 n. one who is absent from school without permission s. absent without permission