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Miss   /mɪs/   Listen
Miss

noun
(pl. misses)
1.
A young woman.  Synonyms: fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman.
2.
A failure to hit (or meet or find etc).  Synonym: misfire.
3.
A form of address for an unmarried woman.
verb
(past & past part. missed; pres. part. missing)
1.
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: lose.  "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"
2.
Feel or suffer from the lack of.
3.
Fail to attend an event or activity.  "He missed school for a week"
4.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
5.
Fail to reach or get to.
6.
Be without.  Synonym: lack.  "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
7.
Fail to reach.
8.
Be absent.
9.
Fail to experience.  Synonym: escape.



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"Miss" Quotes from Famous Books



... like, Bessy," said Mr. Tulliver, taking up his hat and walking out to the mill. Few wives were more submissive than Mrs. Tulliver on all points unconnected with her family relations; but she had been a Miss Dodson, and the Dodsons were a very respectable family indeed,—as much looked up to as any in their own parish, or the next to it. The Miss Dodsons had always been thought to hold up their heads very high, and ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... legend which touches the true note of Bearn. Toward the year 1200, three of its rulers, in turn misgoverning, were in turn deposed by the barons. The heirs next in line were the infant twins of one William de Moncade. "It was agreed," as Miss Costello relates it; "that one of these should fill the vacant seat of sovereignty of Bearn, and two of the prudhommes were deputed to visit their father with the proposition. On their arrival at his castle, the ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... the marriage of her son Rollo to Miss Alice Godfrey was a great happiness to her. But in little more than a year, soon after the birth of a son, Mrs. Rollo Russell died, and again Lady Russell suffered deeply, for she always found the sorrows of her children harder to bear ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
... Harriet. He relished the Friar's chicken that Miss Delavie left for him, and he amused himself for an hour with Master Eugene, after which he did me the honour to play two plays ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to Mr. Harold Wingate for his suggestions and corrections of the manuscript; to Mr. C. G. Lloyd for permission to print from his photographs; to Miss Laura C. Detwiller for her paintings from nature, which have been here reproduced; and also to Mrs. Harrison Streeter and Miss Mary W. Nichols for their encouragement of the undertaking and suggestions in ...
— Among the Mushrooms - A Guide For Beginners • Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin


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