Usually means: Student absent without permission regularly.
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  1. truant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. truant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. truant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. truant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. truant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Truant, truant: Wordnik
  7. truant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. truant: Wiktionary
  9. truant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. truant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. truant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. truant: Dictionary.com
  13. truant (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. truant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TruANT, Truant (album), Truant (steamboat), Truant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Truant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. truant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. truant: Rhymezone
  19. truant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. truant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. truant: Free Dictionary
  22. truant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. truant: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. truant: Legal dictionary

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  1. truant: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. truant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See truanting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
adjective:  (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
noun:  An idle or lazy person; an idler.
noun:  (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
verb:  (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).

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