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Definition truant

Etymology

From Middle English truant, truand, trewande, trowant (= Middle Dutch trouwant, trawant, truwant), from Old French truand, truant (“a vagabond, beggar, rogue", also "beggarly, roguish”), of Celtic origin, perhaps from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *térh?-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh?-.

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truaghan, Irish trogha (“destitute”), trogán, Breton truc (“beggar”), Welsh tru.

Adjective

truant (not comparable)

  1. Absent without permission, especially from school.
  2. Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.

Noun

truant (plural truants)

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

Verb

truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)

  1. (intransitive) To play truant.
  2. (transitive) To idle away; to waste.
  3. To idle away time.

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