truant

(trū'ənt)
n.

1. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
2. One who shirks work or duty.

adj.

1. Absent without permission, especially from school.
2. Idle, lazy, or neglectful.

intr.v., -ant·ed, -ant·ing, -ants.
To be truant.

[Middle English, beggar, from Old French.]

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verb

To fail to attend on purpose: cut. Informal skip. Idioms: go AWOL, playhookytruant. See seek/avoid.

• Artist: Alien Ant Farm
• Rating:
• Release Date: August 19, 2003
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
• Genre: Rock

Review

After Alien Ant Farm's deadly bus crash in 2001 in Europe, it was difficult to tell if the band would record again. Lead singer Dryden Mitchell broke his neck, a notoriously difficult injury from which to recover. But the California-based Alien Ant Farm teamed up with producers Robert and Dean DeLeo of the Stone Temple Pilots for truANT, an album that grabs listeners by the collar with "1,000 Days" and doesn't let go until the closing track, "Hope." The first single, "These Days," is so relentlessly addictive and hopelessly upbeat ("These days are great/There's work to do/Would you like to work with me?/I'd love to work you") that anyone who hears it will give in to its soaring vocals and staccato guitars. "Sarah Wynn" is an incredibly honest, touching plea for a girl to stop using drugs ("What the hell were you thinking of?/I can't help you now, Sarah/Why the hell were you shooting up?/Now you're coming down, Sarah"). The song is almost painful to listen to. "Tia Lupe" doesn't fit in with the anthemic rock that fills truANT, but it is nonetheless a snappy, Latin-inspired love song. These days music fans will be hard-pressed to find an album so satisfying. ~ Christina Fuoco, Rovi

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For a list of words related to truant, see:

• Teachers and Students - truant: student inexcusably or habitually late or absent from school
• Behavior or Personality
• Inert, Lazy, Tired, or Insensate

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - driveri, skulkeri, skulker, pjæk
adj. - skulkende
v. intr. - skulke, pjække

idioms:

• play truant    skulke
• truant officer    tilsynsførende (for unge)

Nederlands (Dutch)
spijbelaar, spijbelen(d)

Français (French)
n. - enfant qui fait l'école buissonnière
adj. - qui fait l'école buissonnière
v. intr. - faire l'école buissonnière

idioms:

• play truant    faire l'école buissonnière
• truant officer    (École) personne chargée de combattre l'absentéisme

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schwänzer
v. - schwänzen
adj. - faul, träge

idioms:

• play truant    schwänzen, unentschuldigt fehlen
• truant officer    Beamter, der Fälle von Schulschwänzen untersucht

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κοπανατζής, σκασιάρχης, λουφαδόρος
v. - κάνω κοπάνα/σκασιαρχείο (από το σχολείο), φυγοπονώ, τεμπελιάζω

idioms:

• play truant    κάνω κοπάνα/σκασιαρχείο (από το σχολείο)
• truant officer    παιδονόμος

Italiano (Italian)
ragazzo che marina la scuola, lavativo, pigro

idioms:

• play truant    marinare
• truant officer    assistente sociale scolastico

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vadio (m), gazeador (m), preguiçoso (m)
v. - vadiar, gazear

idioms:

• play truant    matar aula
• truant officer    inspetor de disciplina, bedel de freqüência às aulas

Русский (Russian)
манкирующий своими обязанностями

idioms:

• play truant    манкировать чем-л.
• truant officer    школьный надзиратель

Español (Spanish)
n. - persona que hace novillos, haragán
adj. - ocioso, que hace novillos, de novillo, perezoso
v. intr. - hacer novillos, no trabajar, holgazanear, vaguear

idioms:

• play truant    faltar a clase, hacer novillos o hacerse la rabona
• truant officer    empleado del sistema escolar para investigar las faltas a clase

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skolkare, dagdrivare
v. - skolka, driva omkring

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
懒惰鬼, 旷课者, 偷懒的, 游荡的, 旷课的, 逃学, 偷懒, 逃避责任

idioms:

• play truant    逃学, 逃避责任
• truant officer    训导人员

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 懶惰鬼, 曠課者
adj. - 偷懶的, 遊蕩的, 曠課的
v. intr. - 逃學, 偷懶, 逃避責任

idioms:

• play truant    逃學, 逃避責任
• truant officer    訓導人員

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 게으름뱅이, 무단 결석자
adj. - 무단 결석하는, 나태한, 게으름 피우는
v. intr. - 무단 결석하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - なまけ者, 無断欠席者, 怠け者
adj. - 無断で欠席する, 怠惰な
v. - 無断欠席をする

idioms:

• truant officer    長期欠席児童調査官

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) المهمل بواجبه (فعل) يتغيب بدون أذن, يتهرب من واجبه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ילד הנעדר מבית-הספר, אדם הנעדר מעבודתו‬
adj. - ‮נעדר, משתמט, משוטט‬
v. intr. - ‮נעדר‬

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