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MIA
/ˈmiə/
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What does MIA mean?
noun
- An ancient bluffing game played with dice.
- Bulimia nervosa.
adjective
- Initialism of missing in action.
More meanings (8)
adjective
- Absent for a long time.
noun
- Initialism of Mutual Improvement Association.
- Initialism of missing in action, a service member that did not return from action and was not found in the field.
proper noun
- Initialism of Middle Indo-Aryan.
- Abbreviation of Miami.
- Initialism of Miami International Airport.
- A female given name from German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.
- A surname from Bengali.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmiə/
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In the first dawn of my manhood the old painters of Italy had taught me their dangerous worship of the beauty that is more than mortal, but those images all seemed shadowy now, and floated before me so dimly, the one overcasting the other, that they left me no one sweet idol on which I could look and look again and say, “Maria mia!”
“Credo ch ‘el reste di quel verno, cose Facesse degne di tener ne conto; Ma fur fin’ a quel tempo si nascose, Che non a colpa mia s’ hor ‘non le conto Perche Orlando a far l’opre virtuose Piu ch’a narrar le poi sempre era pronto; Ne mai fu alcun’ de’suoi fatti espresso, Se non quando ebbe i testimonii appresso.”