meaning of miss
1. 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.
2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
4. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
5. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
6. To go wrong; to err.
7. To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
8. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
9. Loss; want; felt absence.
10. Mistake; error; fault.
11. Harm from mistake.
12. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
13. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
14. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
15. 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.
16. a failure to hit or meet or find etc
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