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Definition of Truant
1. Adjective. Absent without permission. "The soldier was AWOL for almost a week"
2. Noun. One who is absent from school without permission.
3. Noun. Someone who shirks duty.
Definition of Truant
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.
Definition of Truant
1. Adjective. Describing one who is truant, absent without permission, especially from school. ¹
2. Noun. One who is absent without permission, especially from school. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To play truant. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To idle away; to waste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truant
1. to stay out of school without permission [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truant
Literary usage of Truant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Juvenile Offenders by William Douglas Morrison (1897)
"... to day industrial schools and truant schools—Cases for day industrial schools—
Training in day industrial schools—truant schools—The object of truant ..."
2. State and County Educational Reorganization: The Revised Constitution and by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1914)
"Definition of habitual truant and school-offender. — Any child within the compulsory
school-ages shall be deemed a truant who shall have been absent from ..."
3. Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1901)
"The chief value of truant schools is their efficiency in bringing under school
... Every truant is a living illustration of a weakness in our school system. ..."
4. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (2001)
"(With truant vowes to her owne lips he loues) And dare avow her Beauty, and her
Worth, 282 In other armes then hers: to him this Challenge. ..."
5. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Truancy and truant Schools 1862. truant law of 1862. (2 AR bd. of state charities
1865: 109-111.) 1874-1883. Comparative table showing expenses of local ..."
6. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1864)
"THE ROCHESTER truant HOME. On the 30th day of August, 1863, after the close of
... The law under which the truant Home was organized,- was enacted by the ..."
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