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Definition of Miss

Miss 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. 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. 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. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc. Loss; want; felt absence. Mistake; error; fault. Harm from mistake. Related Definitions: Absence, Absent, Act, An, Applied, As, At, Be, Been, Being, By, Courtesy, Dealt, Deficient, Deviate, Direction, Discover, Dispense, Do, Err, Error, Extra, Fail, Failure, Fault, Feel, Felt, Find, Finding, Fly, For, From, Game, Get, Getting, Girl, Go, Hand, Harm, Have, Hearing, Hit, Hitting, Has, In, Is, Kept, Knowledge, Late, Learn, Loo, Loss, Mark, Married, May, Meaning, Miss, Missing, Mistake, Mistress, Mourn, Name, Not, Now, Obtain, Of, Omission, Omit, On, One, Or, Player, Point, Prefixed, Reach, Reaching, Said, See, Seeing, Seldom, She, Sixteen, Something, Substituted, Table, The, Title, To, Train, True, Want, Wanting, Which, Who, Wide, With, Without, Woman, Wrong, Young

Miss Quotations Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown I hit big or I miss big. George Herman You miss 100% of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky

Miss Translations miss in Dutch is missen, mislopen, misgrijpen miss in French is rater, manquons, manquent, manquer, manquez Miss in Italian is signorina miss in Italian is perdere miss in Latin is requiro miss in Portuguese is falta miss in Swedish is sakna

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