truant

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tru·ant

(tro͞o′ənt)

1. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

2. One who shirks work or duty.

adj.

1. Absent without permission, especially from school.

2. Idle, lazy, or neglectful.

intr.v. tru·ant·ed, tru·ant·ing, tru·ants

To be truant.

[Middle English, beggar, from Old French; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]

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truant

(ˈtruːənt)

(Education) a person who is absent without leave, esp from school

adj

being or relating to a truant

(Education) (intr) to play truant

[C13: from Old French: vagabond, probably of Celtic origin; compare Welsh truan miserable, Old Irish trōg wretched]

ˈtruancy, ˈtruanting n

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tru•ant

(ˈtru ənt)

n.

1. a student who stays away from school without permission.

2. a person who shirks or neglects his or her duty.

adj.

3. absent from school without permission.

4. neglectful of duty or responsibility; idle.

5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a truant.

v.i.

6. to be truant.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Old French: beggar < Celtic; compare Welsh truan wretched, wretch]

tru′ant•ly, adv.

truant

Past participle: truanted
Gerund: truanting

Imperative
truant
truant

Present
I truant
you truant
he/she/it truants
we truant
you truant
they truant

Preterite
I truanted
you truanted
he/she/it truanted
we truanted
you truanted
they truanted

Present Continuous
I am truanting
you are truanting
he/she/it is truanting
we are truanting
you are truanting
they are truanting

Present Perfect
I have truanted
you have truanted
he/she/it has truanted
we have truanted
you have truanted
they have truanted

Past Continuous
I was truanting
you were truanting
he/she/it was truanting
we were truanting
you were truanting
they were truanting

Past Perfect
I had truanted
you had truanted
he/she/it had truanted
we had truanted
you had truanted
they had truanted

Future
I will truant
you will truant
he/she/it will truant
we will truant
you will truant
they will truant

Future Perfect
I will have truanted
you will have truanted
he/she/it will have truanted
we will have truanted
you will have truanted
they will have truanted

Future Continuous
I will be truanting
you will be truanting
he/she/it will be truanting
we will be truanting
you will be truanting
they will be truanting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been truanting
you have been truanting
he/she/it has been truanting
we have been truanting
you have been truanting
they have been truanting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been truanting
you will have been truanting
he/she/it will have been truanting
we will have been truanting
you will have been truanting
they will have been truanting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been truanting
you had been truanting
he/she/it had been truanting
we had been truanting
you had been truanting
they had been truanting

Conditional
I would truant
you would truant
he/she/it would truant
we would truant
you would truant
they would truant

Past Conditional
I would have truanted
you would have truanted
he/she/it would have truanted
we would have truanted
you would have truanted
they would have truanted

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truant

play hooky

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Noun	1.	truant - one who is absent from school without permission hooky player absentee - one that is absent or not in residence
	2.	truant - someone who shirks duty nonattender, no-show offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law
Adj.	1.	truant - absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" awol absent - not being in a specified place

truant

noun

1. absentee, skiver (Brit. slang), shirker, dodger, runaway, delinquent, deserter, straggler, malingerer She became a truant at the age of ten.

adjective

1. absent, missing, skiving (Brit. slang), absent without leave, A.W.O.L. Neither the parents nor the truant students showed up at court.

verb

1. absent yourself, play truant, skive (Brit. slang), bunk off (slang), desert, run away, dodge, wag (dialect), go missing, shirk, malinger, bob off (Brit. slang) In his fourth year he was truanting regularly.

play truant stay away from school, be absent, truant, skive off (Brit. informal), bunk off (Brit. informal), not go to school She was in trouble over playing truant.

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truant

verb

To fail to attend on purpose:

cut.

Informal: skip.

Idioms: go AWOL, play hooky.

Translations

تِلْميذ مُتَغَيِّب

záškolák

pjækker

Schwänzer Schwänzerin

iskolakerülõ

skrópari

assente ingiustificato assenza ingiustificata marinare la scuola

neiti į pamokaspamokų praleidinėjimaspraleidinėti pamokas

bastotājskavētājs

skofter

záškolák

špricarzmuzne

okul kaçağı

逃学者

truant

[ˈtrʊənt]

A. N (Scol) → ausente mf
to play truant (Scol) → hacer novillos, hacer la rabona (fig) → ausentarse

B. VI (Scol) → hacer novillos, hacer la rabona (fig) → ausentarse (from de)

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truant

[ˈtruːənt]

n (= pupil) → élève mf absentéiste
to play truant → manquer les cours

vi → manquer les cours

truant

n → (Schul)schwänzer(in) m(f); to play truant (from something) → (bei etw) unentschuldigt fehlen, (etw) schwänzen (inf)

vi → schwänzen (inf)

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truant

[ˈtrʊənt] n (Scol) to play truant → marinare la scuola

truant

(ˈtruənt) noun

someone who stays away from school etc without permission. The truants were caught and sent back to school.

ˈtruancy noun

Truancy is a great problem in some schools.

play truant

to be a truant and stay away from school etc. He was always playing truant (from school).

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When the Hours flew brightly by And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did guide to thine and thee; Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast Darkly my Present and my Past, Let my Future radiant shine With sweet hopes of thee and thine!

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Truant! truant!" he added, when he had paused an instant.

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We stood there, grouped about the body of the dead Grabritin, looking futilely down the river to where it made an abrupt curve to the west, a quarter of a mile below us, and was lost to sight, as though we expected to see the truant returning to us with our precious launch--the thing that meant life or death to us in this unfriendly, savage world.

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Now this was George's place when he dined at home; and his cover, as we said, was laid for him in expectation of that truant's return.

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Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports, for Laurie was always playing truant and running over to the Marches'.

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No passing boat brought the truant back, though more than one pair of eyes looked out for the bright hair under the round hat; and sunset came, bringing no Rose but the lovely colour in the western sky.

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Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.

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Fyne unflinching and ready for any responsibility, Fyne solemn and shrinking--the children in bed upstairs; and outside the dark fields, the shadowy contours of the land on the starry background of the universe, with the crude light of the open window like a beacon for the truant who would never come back now; a truant no longer but a downright fugitive.

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No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner." And then the good man went on to talk wisely to Tom of the sort of work which he might take up as an undergraduate, and warned him of the prevalent university sins, and explained to him the many and great differences between university and school life, till the twilight changed into darkness, and they heard the truant servants stealing in by the back entrance.

The master chuckled grimly at this burglarious entry, and insisted on leaving the hall-door and two of the front windows open, to frighten the truants on their return; and then the two set about foraging for tea, in which operation the master was much at fault, having the faintest possible idea of where to find anything, and being, moreover, wondrously short-sighted; but Tom, by a sort of instinct, knew the right cupboards in the kitchen and pantry, and soon managed to place on the snuggery table better materials for a meal than had appeared there probably during the reign of his tutor, who was then and there initiated, amongst other things, into the excellence of that mysterious condiment, a dripping-cake.

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The law was against them, too--little Vilimas, who was really eleven, but did not look to be eight, was stopped on the streets by a severe old lady in spectacles, who told him that he was too young to be working and that if he did not stop selling papers she would send a truant officer after him.

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The 2002 Mori Youth Justice survey showed those who play truant are more likely to offend than those that do not, with two-thirds (65%) of truants having offended compared to less than a third (30%) of those who have not played truant.