What is the meaning of Truant?
Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
Of a student: absent from school without permission.
Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
An idle or lazy person; an idler.
A student who is absent from school without permission; hence , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
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.
Also used with the impersonal pronoun it : to shirk or wander from business or duty; of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
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