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A truant is a student who is out of school without permission. If you skip school to go shopping with your friends, you are a truant. A person can be a truant, and behavior can be described as truant too, since it's both a noun and an adjective.
3 days ago · 1. countable noun. A truant is a pupil who stays away from school without permission . Synonyms: absentee, skiver [British, slang], shirker, dodger More Synonyms of truant. 2. verb. If a pupil truants, he or she stays away from school without permission. In his fourth year he was truanting regularly.
noun. a student who stays away from school without permission. a person who shirks or neglects a duty. Synonyms: malingerer, loafer, layabout, shirker, idler. adjective. absent from school without permission. neglectful of duty or responsibility; idle.
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.
Synonyms for TRUANT: absent, AWOL, retired, away, out, missing, departed, abroad; Antonyms of TRUANT: attending, participating, present, here, accompanying, in, slave, work
Truant definition, a student who stays away from school without permission. See more.
/ˈtruːənt/ [intransitive] Verb Forms. (of a child) to stay away from school without permission. A number of pupils have been truanting regularly. Topics Education c1. Join us. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Check pronunciation: truant.
