1 ~ (from sth) not in a place because of illness, etc:
to be absent from work / school / a meeting
OPPPRESENT
2 ~ (from sth) not present in sth:
Love was totally absent from his childhood.
OPPPRESENT
3 showing that you are not really looking at or thinking about what is happening around you:
an absent expression / look / stare
seealsoABSENTLY
verb [VN] ~ yourself (from sth) (formal) to not go to or be in a place where you are expected to be:
He had absented himself from the office for the day.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for absent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is absent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, absent is tagged as adjective.
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