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6-letter words (1 found)

TRUANT,

5-letter words (5 found)

ARNUT,TAUNT,TRANT,TUART,TURNT,

4-letter words (13 found)

AUNT,RANT,RATU,RAUN,RUNT,TARN,TART,TATU,TAUT,TRAT,TUAN,TUNA,TURN,

3-letter words (18 found)

ANT,ART,ATT,NAT,NUR,NUT,RAN,RAT,RUN,RUT,TAN,TAR,TAT,TAU,TUN,TUT,URN,UTA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AN,AR,AT,NA,NU,TA,UN,UR,UT,

You can make 46 words from truant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of truant

truant

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹuːənt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹuənt/
  • Rhymes: -uːənt
  • Hyphenation: tru‧ant

Etymology 1

The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”).

Adjective

truant (not comparable)

  1. Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
  2. (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
  3. (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
Derived terms
  • trivant (Britain, dialectal)
  • truantness (archaic or obsolete)
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Noun

truant (plural truants)

  1. An idle or lazy person; an idler.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idler
  2. (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
  3. (obsolete) 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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagabond, Thesaurus:worthless person
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Etymology 2

From Middle English truaunten (“to obtain alms fraudulently; to behave like a rogue or scoundrel; to neglect a duty; to be idle or lazy”), and then partly:

  • from Old French truander (modern French truander (“to cheat, to con”)), from truand (noun) (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and
  • from Middle English truaunt (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

Verb

truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)

  1. (intransitive) 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.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).
Derived terms
  • truanting (adjective, noun)
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References

Further reading

  • truancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • truant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • traunt

Source: wiktionary.org