Results for miss

Definition of miss:

• part of speech: (noun)

  A title of address conferred on young unmarried women, prefixed to the name, as Miss Brown, or Miss Jane Brown; a young girl; a kept mistress.

• part of speech: (verb intransitive)

  To fail to hit; to fail.

• part of speech: (verb transitive)

  To fail to hit, find, or keep; to omit; feel the want of.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To fail in hitting or reaching, as a mark; to fail in obtaining, finding, or keeping; to discover something to be wanting; to perceive the want of; to mistake; to omit; to be wanting.

• part of speech: (noun)

  An unmarried woman or girl; title of an unmarried woman.

• part of speech: (noun)

  Loss; want; mistake.

• part of speech: (noun)

  A failure.

Usage examples for miss:

“ She wondered where she could have seen Miss Reynier before. ” The Stolen Singer, - Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger.

“ You are Miss Wilming? ” The Firing Line, - Robert W. Chambers.