Usually means: Not present at a location.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Absent:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. absent: Merriam-Webster
  2. absent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. absent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. absent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Absent, absent: Wordnik
  7. absent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. absent: Wiktionary
  9. absent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. absent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. absent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Absent, absent: Dictionary.com
  13. absent (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. absent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Absent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Absent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. absent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. absent: Rhymezone
  19. absent, absent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. absent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. absent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. absent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. absent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Absent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. absent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. absent: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. absent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absent: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Absent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (absent)

▸ adjective:  (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing.
▸ adjective:  (not comparable) Not existing.
▸ adjective:  (comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
▸ noun:  (with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.
▸ verb:  (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) Leave.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To omit.

Similar:
absentminded, AWOL, lacking, inattentive, nonexistent, devoid, missing, wanting, abstracted, truant, more...

Opposite:
present, available, attending, existent, here

Types:
absent-minded, absent from work, absent from school, absent from meeting, absent from party, absent from game, more...

Phrases:
absent minded, absent voters, absent voter, absent mindedness, absent oneself, more...

Adjectives:
present, pent, sweet, normal, total, dead, fair, percent, thrombocytopenia, more, suggestive

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Similar:
absentminded, AWOL, lacking, inattentive, nonexistent, devoid, missing, wanting, abstracted, truant, more...

Opposite:
present, available, attending, existent, here

Types:
absent-minded, absent from work, absent from school, absent from meeting, absent from party, absent from game, more...

Phrases:
absent minded, absent voters, absent voter, absent mindedness, absent oneself, absent without leave, absent libido, absent mindedly, thrombocytopenia absent radius syndrome, absent milk, more...

Adjectives:
present, pent, sweet, normal, total, dead, fair, percent, thrombocytopenia, more, suggestive

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     beige,     pale blue, more...



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