Miss > define

noun

• A young woman.
  • usage: "a young lady of 18"
  • synonyms: girl, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
• A failure to hit (or meet or find etc.
  • synonyms: misfire
• A form of address for an unmarried woman.

verb

• Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.
  • usage: "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
  • synonyms: lose
• Feel or suffer from the lack of.
  • usage: "He misses his mother"
• Fail to attend an event or activity.
  • usage: "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
• Leave undone or leave out.
  • usage: "How could I miss that typo"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
  • synonyms: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, leave out, overlook, overleap
• Fail to reach or get to.
  • usage: "She missed her train"
• Be without.
  • usage: "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box"
  • synonyms: lack
• Fail to reach.
  • usage: "The arrow missed the target"
• Be absent.
  • usage: "The child had been missing for a week"
• Fail to experience.
  • usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
  • synonyms: escape

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