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truantry

truantry noun: truancy.

Noun

truantry (countable and uncountable, plural truantries)

  1. truancy
    • Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

Forms of truantry

pluraltruantries

Origin of truantry

From truant + -ry.

Questions about truantry

What does truantry mean?
Truantry means truancy.
What part of speech is truantry?
Truantry is a noun.
What is the plural of truantry?
The plural of truantry is truantries.

Words near truantry in the dictionary

  1. truantisms
  2. truantlike
  3. truantly
  4. truantness
  5. truantries
  6. truantry
  7. truants
  8. truantship
  9. truar
  10. truars
  11. Truax

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