truanting
truanting is the present participle and gerund of truant.
Meaning of truant
Verb
truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)
- 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.
- To idle away or waste (time).
- I dare not be the Author / Of trevvanting the time then, neither vvill I.c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 45
Noun
truanting (countable and uncountable, plural truantings)
- Truancy.
- At school he fared no better than at home; and unless he was consoled by his almost constant truantings in the woods and fields, his youth must have been one of unrelieved repining and despondency.1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 88
Forms of truanting
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Questions about truanting
- What does truanting mean?
- Truanting means truancy.
- What is truanting the present participle and gerund of?
- Truanting is the present participle and gerund of truant.
- What part of speech is truanting?
- Truanting is a noun.
- What is the plural of truanting?
- The plural of truanting is truantings.
Words near truanting in the dictionary
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