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Meaning of
'truant'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Truant
[
a.
]
- Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
2 .
Truant
[
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.
3 .
Truant
[
v. i.
]
- To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
4 .
Truant
[
v. t.
]
- To idle away; to waste.
Meaning of 'truant' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 .
truant
[
s
]
Meaning (1):
- absent without permission
Example in sentence:
the soldier was AWOL for almost a week;
truant schoolboys
Nearby Words:
truage
truancy
truand
truantly
truantship
trub
trubtall
trubu
trubutarily
truce
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