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truant
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural truants
plural truants
Learner's definition of TRUANT
[count]
: a student who misses school without permission旷课生；逃学者
- an increasing number of truants越来越多的旷课学生
- a truant officer [=a person who looks for students who are not in school]检查旷课的训导员
play truant
British, informal : to miss school without permission逃学；旷课
- He's been playing truant [=(US) playing hooky, (Brit) skiving off] with his friends.他总是和伙伴们一起逃学。
: one who shirks duty
especially : one who stays out of school without permission
truanted; truanting; truants
: to idle away time especially while playing truant
Example Sentences
Noun an increasing number of truants
Recent Examples on the Web
Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020 The film follows Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a 12-year-old truant causing trouble on the streets of Paris. Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020 In the House of Representatives, East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell was the top truant of the presidential contenders, missing 39.7 percent of votes this year. Casey Tolan, The Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2019 Ten were booked as runaways five as truants and one turned out to be an AWOL Marine from Camp Pendleton. Johnny Miller — Jack Viets, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018 In Park Hill School District about 150 students who observed the walkout were marked truant. Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 20 Mar. 2018 Chon and comedian Daniel So play down-and-out Korean-Americans trying to keep their late dad’s shoe store alive; a delightful Simone Baker is the 11-year-old school truant who helps out in the shop, to the chagrin of her brother (Curtiss Cook. Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018 About 150 Park Hill High School students participated, according to junior Ethan Simon, who told The Star that each participant was marked truant. Max Londberg, kansascity, 14 Mar. 2018 Being tagged a chronic truant – after missing 10 percent or more of the school year – could mean up to a $2,000 fine and jail time for parents or the student. Diana Lambert, sacbee, 29 Oct. 2017 Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2022 Small also said the district recently stopped alerting law enforcement when students are truant. Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022 Madani’s work is like a truant love child of scatological transgressions by the late Mike Kelley and the feminist media smarts of artist Barbara Kruger. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022 Most of the truancy tickets were written after the law banning schools from referring truant students to police for tickets went into effect. Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 26 May 2022 The virus sapped many districts of the personnel to reliably track students who were truant or absent, and the state enrollment census was taken early in the year, during a surge in infections that may have distorted the numbers. New York Times, 17 May 2022 Another law, dating to 2019, directly bans schools from reporting truant students to authorities so the students can be ticketed. Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022 Another state law prohibits schools from notifying police when students are truant so officers can ticket them. Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2022 According to the presentation, failure to serve detention, being tardy or truant were the main reasons high school students were served in-school suspensions. Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2022 See More
Noun
And under California law, the letter reads, that means his son is considered a truant. Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020 The film follows Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a 12-year-old truant causing trouble on the streets of Paris. Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020 In the House of Representatives, East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell was the top truant of the presidential contenders, missing 39.7 percent of votes this year. Casey Tolan, The Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2019 Ten were booked as runaways five as truants and one turned out to be an AWOL Marine from Camp Pendleton. Johnny Miller — Jack Viets, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018 In Park Hill School District about 150 students who observed the walkout were marked truant. Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 20 Mar. 2018 Chon and comedian Daniel So play down-and-out Korean-Americans trying to keep their late dad’s shoe store alive; a delightful Simone Baker is the 11-year-old school truant who helps out in the shop, to the chagrin of her brother (Curtiss Cook. Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018 About 150 Park Hill High School students participated, according to junior Ethan Simon, who told The Star that each participant was marked truant. Max Londberg, kansascity, 14 Mar. 2018 Being tagged a chronic truant – after missing 10 percent or more of the school year – could mean up to a $2,000 fine and jail time for parents or the student. Diana Lambert, sacbee, 29 Oct. 2017 Adjective
Small also said the district recently stopped alerting law enforcement when students are truant. Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2022 Small also said the district recently stopped alerting law enforcement when students are truant. Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022 Madani’s work is like a truant love child of scatological transgressions by the late Mike Kelley and the feminist media smarts of artist Barbara Kruger. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022 Most of the truancy tickets were written after the law banning schools from referring truant students to police for tickets went into effect. Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 26 May 2022 The virus sapped many districts of the personnel to reliably track students who were truant or absent, and the state enrollment census was taken early in the year, during a surge in infections that may have distorted the numbers. New York Times, 17 May 2022 Another law, dating to 2019, directly bans schools from reporting truant students to authorities so the students can be ticketed. Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022 Another state law prohibits schools from notifying police when students are truant so officers can ticket them. Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2022 According to the presentation, failure to serve detention, being tardy or truant were the main reasons high school students were served in-school suspensions. Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, vagabond, idler, from Anglo-French, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish trógán wretch, trúag wretched
First Known Use
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Adjective
1561, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1580, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of truant was in the 14th century Phrases Containing truant
noun
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