| Main Entry: | truant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent without leave, astray, away, cutting class, gone, hooky, missing, no-show, not present, playing hooky, skipping school |
| Main Entry: | truant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absentee |
Synonyms: |
delinquent, deserter, draft dodger, hooky player, malingerer, no-show, runaway, shirker |
| Main Entry: | absconder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who escapes |
Synonyms: |
absentee, bolter, escapee, quitter, truant |
| Main Entry: | deserter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fugitive from responsibility |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absconder, apostate, backslider, betrayer, criminal, defector, delinquent, derelict, escapee, escaper, hookey player, lawbreaker, maroon, no-show, recreant, refugee, renegade, runaway, shirker, slacker, traitor, truant |
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
Synonyms: |
bolter, derelict, deserter, displaced person, dodger, escapee, escaper, evacuee, exile, fly-by-night, hermit, hunted person, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runagate, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, walkout, émigré |
| Main Entry: | runaway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is trying to escape |
Synonyms: |
absconder, delinquent, deserter, escapee, escaper, fugitive, lawbreaker, maroon, offender, truant, wanted person |
| Main Entry: | traveler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who journeys |
Synonyms: |
adventurer, barnstormer, bum*, commuter, displaced person, drifter, excursionist, expeditionist, explorer, floater, gadabout, globetrotter, gypsy, haj, hiker, hobo, itinerant, jet-setter, journeyer, junketer, migrant, navigator, nomad, passenger, peddler, pilgrim, rambler, roamer, rover, sailor, seafarer, sightseer, tourist, tramp, transmigrant, trekker, tripper, trouper, truant, vagabond, vagrant, voyager, wanderer, wayfarer |
| Main Entry: | dropout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failing student |
Synonyms: |
failure, hippie, nonconformist, quitter, truant |
| Concept: | Traveler. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter., tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beachcomber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Aust.]; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro., runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet., pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman., rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker., driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman.
-phrases
on the road.
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