🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Assente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Assente

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Absent/ˈæb.sənt/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Era assente dalla riunione."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not present in a place, at an occasion, or as part of something.

    "She was absent from the meeting due to a family emergency."
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or thing that is not present.

    "The teacher marked him as an absent for the day."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'absent' originates from the Latin 'absens', the present participle of 'abesse', meaning 'to be away'. It entered Middle English through Old French in the late 14th century, retaining the sense of being away or not present.

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