truant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.

   “Ham[let]. And vvhat in faith make you from VVittenberg? / Hora[tio]. A truant diſpoſition good my Lord.”

2. sıfat Of a student: absent from school without permission.

   “He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.”

3. sıfat Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
4. isim An idle or lazy person; an idler.

   “For my part I may ſpeake it to my ſhame, / I haue a truant beene to Chiualrie, […]”

5. isim A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.

   “[S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.”

6. isim 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.

   “Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in him to be truly toucht vvith loue, if he be ſadde, he vvantes money.”

7. fiil 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.

   “The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high.”

8. fiil To idle away or waste (time).

   “I dare not be the Author / Of trevvanting the time then, neither vvill I.”