Usually means: Weapon propelled, guided to target.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Missile:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. missile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. missile: Merriam-Webster
  3. missile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. missile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. missile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. missile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Missile, missile: Wordnik
  8. missile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. missile: Wiktionary
  10. missile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. missile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. missile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Missile, missile: Dictionary.com
  14. missile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. missile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Missile (Ghost Trick), Missile (disambiguation), Missile (song), Missile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Missile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. missile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. missile: Rhymezone
  20. missile, missile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. missile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. missile: FreeDictionary.org
  23. missile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. missile: TheFreeDictionary.com

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 (missile)

▸ 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.]

Similar:
projectile, supermissile, throwing axe, bullet, throwing-ax, dart, throwing-axe, throwing ax, space weapon, rocket, more...

Opposite:
dove, peace, harmony, truce, reconciliation

Types:
ballistic, cruise, anti-ballistic, anti-ship, air-to-air, air-to-surface, surface-to-, more...

Phrases:
ballistic missile, missile crisis, cuban missile, Missile defense, cruise missile, more...

Adjectives:
speed, ballistic, range, intercontinental, guided, first, new, nuclear, soviet, single, seeking

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Similar:
projectile, supermissile, throwing axe, bullet, throwing-ax, dart, throwing-axe, throwing ax, space weapon, rocket, more...

Opposite:
dove, peace, harmony, truce, reconciliation

Types:
ballistic, cruise, anti-ballistic, anti-ship, air-to-air, air-to-surface, surface-to-, more...

Phrases:
ballistic missile, missile crisis, cuban missile, Missile defense, cruise missile, guided missile, missile gap, nuclear missile, missile defence, missile launchers, antiballistic missile, Missile guidance, more...

Adjectives:
speed, ballistic, range, intercontinental, guided, first, new, nuclear, soviet, single, seeking

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     khaki,     camouflage green,     dark green, more...



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