truant
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Is truant a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of truant?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.Examples: "He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement."; "[…] I fell desperately in love with a little daughter of the squire's about twelve years of age. This freak of fancy made me more truant from my studies than ever."not-comparablespecifically
2. (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.not-comparableobsolete
noun (English)
1. (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.Examples: "[S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately."; "[…] I knovve you are no truant, / But vvhat is your affaire in Elſonoure?"; "The village maſter taught his little ſchool; / A man ſevere he vvas, and ſtern to vievv, / I knevv him vvell, and every truant knevv; […]"specifically
2. (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.Examples: "Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in him to be truly toucht vvith loue, if he be ſadde, he vvantes money."Synonyms: bum, casual, clochard, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifterobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.Examples: "The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high."; "VVhat made the Gods ſo often to trevvant from Heauen & mych [much] héere on earth, but beautie?"; "VVhat ſimple thiefe brags of his ovvne attaine? / 'Tis double vvrong, to truant vvith your bed, / And let her read it in thy lookes at boord: […]"intransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).Examples: "I dare not be the Author / Of trevvanting the time then, neither vvill I."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary