Australian English Meaning of miss

miss

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Definitions and Meaning of miss in English

Wordnet

miss (n)

a young female

a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

a form of address for an unmarried woman

Wordnet

miss (v)

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

feel or suffer from the lack of

fail to attend an event or activity

leave undone or leave out

fail to reach or get to

be without

fail to reach

be absent

fail to experience

Webster

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.

Webster

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.

Webster

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.

FAQs About the word miss

miss

a young female, a failure to hit (or meet or find etc), a form of address for an unmarried woman, fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind, feel

skip,blow off,cut,wag school,absent oneself,neglect,pass over

attend,Turn up (for)

misruly => unruly, misrule => misrule, misrepute => bad reputation, misrepresenter => Misrepresenter, misrepresented => misrepresented,