(reflexive) To keep (oneself) away. / (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away. / (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw. / (transitive, rare) Leave.

In the absence of; without; except.

(not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing. / (not comparable) Not existing; lacking.

(with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there. / (obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.

(grammar) A form of a noun or pronoun indicating that its referent is absent or dead.

plural of absentative

simple past tense and past participle of absent

present participle of absent

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absent

One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.