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# truant

«truant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a pupil who stays away from school without permission** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (truants); adjective (a truant boy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A truant is a pupil who stays away from school without permission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#m1)

2) (old use) A truant is an idler who wanders about and shirks his work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#m2)

3) To play truant means to stay away from school on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a child who skips school or a lazy wanderer in old tales; in lessons, the teacher marks a truant on the register; «play truant» is the phrase for skipping school

### examples

- Tom played truant and spent the day at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#x1)
- The register showed two truants on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#x2)
- The old tale calls the boy a truant and a vagabond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#x3)
- Though he had played truant so often, he still knew a few things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#x4)
- My sister never plays truant; she loves school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «truant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.