Thesaurus: miss

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