Truant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Truant	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
truant adj absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" Synonym(s): truant, awol n one who is absent from school without permission [syn: truant, hooky player] someone who shirks duty Synonym(s): no-show, nonattender, truant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truant \Tru"ant\, a. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truant \Tru"ant\, v. i. [Cf. F. truander.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truant \Tru"ant\, v. t. To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. --Ford.