Definitions for "Truant"
Keywords:  absent, awol, scamp, schoolboys, otiose
R.L. Stevenson writes that "while others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before the week be out, your truant may learn some really useful art: to play the fiddle, to know a good cigar, or to speak with ease and opportunity to all varieties of men." See: DODGER, OTIOSE, SCAMP, UNEMPLOYED.
one who is absent from school without permission
absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"