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Pronunciation guide for truant
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These people are at-risk; these people are truant.
- Definition summary
- Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
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How to pronounce truant
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These people are at-risk; these people are truant.
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A Deep Dive Into “truant”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
- (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
- (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
- [Noun]
- An idle or lazy person; an idler.
- (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
- (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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).
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