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Meaning of 'miss' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Miss [ n.]
- A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
- A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
- A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
- 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.
- The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
- Loss; want; felt absence.
- Mistake; error; fault.
- Harm from mistake.
2 . Miss [ v. i.]
- To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
- To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
- To go wrong; to err.
- To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
3 . Miss [ 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.
- To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
- To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.

Meaning of 'miss' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . miss [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a young female
Example in sentence:
  • a young lady of 18
2 . miss [ v]
Meaning (2):
- fail to experience
Example in sentence:
  • Fortunately, I missed the hurricane
Meaning (3):
- fail to attend an event or activity
Example in sentence:
  • He missed school for a week;
  • I missed the concert
Meaning (4):
- feel or suffer from the lack of
Example in sentence:
  • He misses his mother
Meaning (5):
- leave undone or leave out
Example in sentence:
  • How could I miss that typo?;
  • The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
Meaning (6):
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
Example in sentence:
  • I missed that remark;
  • She missed his point;
  • We lost part of what he said
Meaning (7):
- fail to reach or get to
Example in sentence:
  • She missed her train
Meaning (8):
- fail to reach
Example in sentence:
  • The arrow missed the target
Meaning (9):
- be absent
Example in sentence:
  • The child had been missing for a week
Meaning (10):
- be without
Example in sentence:
  • There is something missing in my jewelry box!;
  • This soup lacks salt

Nearby Words:

mis mis- misacceptation misaccompt misadjust misadjustment misadventure misadventured misadventurous misadvertence

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