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The Meaning of miss
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(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
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(n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
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(n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
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(v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
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(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
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(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
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(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
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(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
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(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
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(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
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(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
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(n.) Mistake; error; fault.
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(n.) Harm from mistake.
Synonyms
lady friend
,
missy
,
fille
,
young woman
,
young lady
,
girl
,
female child
,
girlfriend
,
daughter
,
little girl
,
misfire
,
dud
,
mislay
,
turn a loss
,
fall behind
,
misplace
,
lose
,
omit
,
overlook
,
fall back
,
lack
,
overleap
,
suffer
,
drop
,
leave out
,
neglect
,
recede
,
drop off
,
pretermit
,
escape
,
unload
,
dribble
,
drip
,
vault
,
send packing
,
dismiss
,
drop down
,
sink
,
fail
,
dominate
,
fell
,
degenerate
,
deteriorate
,
look out over
,
leave off
,
ignore
,
throw
,
cast
,
cut down
,
put down
,
take out
,
devolve
,
expend
,
exclude
,
dangle
,
send away
,
set down
,
flatten
,
look across
,
swing
,
cast off
,
strike down
,
throw off
,
overtop
,
command
,
except
,
shake off
,
discharge
,
spend
,
knock off
,
look out on
,
throw away
,
disregard
,
shed
,
get away
,
scat
,
break away
,
run away
,
bunk
,
get out
,
break loose
,
get off
,
take to the woods
,
scarper
,
fly the coop
,
turn tail
,
run
,
head for the hills
,
elude
,
hightail it
,
get by
,
lam
Antonyms
collide with
,
run into
,
attend
,
go to
,
impinge on
,
have
,
strike
,
feature
,
hit
Homophones
mis
,
mise
Rhymes
abyss
,
alusuisse
,
amiss
,
biosis
,
bis
,
biss
,
bliss
,
brys
,
buice
,
chris
,
chriss
,
cris
,
criss
,
dis
,
dismiss
,
diss
,
fis
,
fiss
,
flis
,
fliss
,
furniss
,
hiss
,
kis
,
kiss
,
kniss
,
kris
,
liss
,
marsalis
,
mis
,
perlis
,
phariss
,
piss
,
pris
,
reminisce
,
remiss
,
resists
,
riss
,
risse
,
rys
,
sis
,
suisse
,
swiss
,
this
,
twiss
,
vis
,
wis
,
wiss
,
wyss