Definitions for truant

truant tru·ant

Spelling: [troo-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈtru ənt/

Truant is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in truant (anrttu).

Definitions for truant

noun

  1. a student who stays away from school without permission.
  2. a person who shirks or neglects his or her duty.

adjective

  1. absent from school without permission.
  2. neglectful of duty or responsibility; idle.
  3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a truant.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be truant.

Origin of truant

1250-1300; Middle English Old French: vagrant, beggar Celtic; compare Welsh truan wretched, wretch

Examples for truant

At that the truant driver appeared, coming at a trot from down the street.

But that, in her delight at recovering her truant, Martin did not notice.

"It should have opened and imprisoned you, as a truant dryad," said he.

I should like to inquire how his son, my truant protege', is going on.

I only proposed to send a truant damsel to the Convent to repent of MY faults, that was all!

A truant one, I fear, though you may have been born in London itself.

"Allow me to return your truant hat, Miss Patterdale," said Laud.

I could see my mother looking from the window for her truant child.

He was a man grown, not a truant child to be led away by the ear for punishment.

Who shall say but the dove sigheth already for her truant mate?

Word Value for truant
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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