Usually means: Weapon propelled, guided to target.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. missile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. missile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. missile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. missile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. missile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Missile, missile: Wordnik
  7. missile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. missile: Wiktionary
  9. missile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. missile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. missile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Missile, missile: Dictionary.com
  13. missile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. missile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Missile (Ghost Trick), Missile (disambiguation), Missile (song), Missile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Missile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. missile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. missile: Rhymezone
  19. missile, missile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. missile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. missile: Free Dictionary
  22. missile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. missile: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. missile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. missile: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. missile: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Missile, the missile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.]
noun:  (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from 20th c.]

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