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See also:Miss,miß,Miß,miss-,miß-,andMiss.

English

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Etymology 1

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Verb fromMiddle Englishmissen, fromOld Englishmissan(“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), fromProto-West Germanic*missijan, fromProto-Germanic*missijaną(“to miss, go wrong, fail”), fromProto-Indo-European*meyth₂-(“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate withWest Frisianmisse(“to miss”),Dutchmissen(“to miss”),Germanmissen(“to miss”),Norwegian Bokmål andDanishmiste(“to lose”),Swedishmissa(“to miss”),Norwegian Nynorsk andIcelandicmissa(“to lose”).

Noun fromMiddle Englishmisse,mis, fromOld Englishmiss(“loss, absence”), fromProto-West Germanic*miss, fromProto-Germanic*miss-(“loss”). Cognate withScotsmiss(“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”),Middle High Germanmisse,mis(“lack, missing, absence”),Icelandicmissir(“loss”). Related also toScotsmis(“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”),Dutchmis(“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”),Middle Low Germanmisse(“sin, wrong”).

Verb

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miss (third-person singular simple presentmisses,present participlemissing,simple past and past participlemissed)

  2. (ambitransitive, physical) Tofail tohit,catch,grasp, etc.
    I fired the gun, but the bulletmissed the target.
    I tried to kick the ball, butmissed.
    She tried to grab hold of the end of the rope, but shemissed.
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      Men observe when things hit, and not when theymiss.
    • 1666,Edmund Waller,"Instructions to a Painter:
      Flying bullets now,
      To execute his rage, appear too slow;
      Theymiss, or sweep but common souls away.
  3. (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
    The driver swerved and just managed tomiss the chicken crossing the road.
  5. (transitive) To fail toachieve orattain.
    The companymissed all its sales targets.
  7. (transitive) To fail toexperience,attend,partake,take advantage of, etc.
    Joemissed the meeting this morning.
    I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but Imissed it this year.
    I'm starving! Imissed breakfast this morning.
    I only left the queue for a moment and now I'vemissed my turn.
    This offer is too good tomiss.
    tomiss an opportunity, tomiss a chance
  9. (transitive) Toavoid orescape.
    The car justmissed hitting a passer-by.
    Wemissed disaster by the skin of our teeth.
  11. (transitive) To become aware of theloss orabsence of; to feel thewant orneed of, sometimes withregret.
    Imiss you! Come home soon!
    Imiss going for walks along the beach.
    I'm not going to the party, but I don't think I'll bemissed.
  13. (transitive) To fail tounderstand.
    Antonym:catch
    tomiss the joke
  15. (transitive) To fail tonotice; to have ashortcoming ofperception;overlook.
    So I'm just going over my early notes, see if Imissed anything.
  17. (transitive) To be toolate to connect with or meet something or someone (a means oftransportation, adeadline, etc.).
    Imissed the plane!
    "Is Polly still here?" — "No, sorry, you've justmissed her. She left a couple of minutes ago."
    • 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, inRAIL, number1030, page45:
      And we can't afford tomiss the train back, as the next one is at 0704 tomorrow...
  19. (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To bewanting; tolack something that should bepresent (see also adjectivalmissing).
    The car ismissing essential features.
    This jigsaw ismissing several pieces.
  20. (transitive, slang) Tospare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
    Miss me with that nonsense!
  21. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help thehand of aplayer.
    Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flopmissed both players!
  22. (sports) Tofail toscore (a goal).
    • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, inBBC Sport:
      Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvilimissed three penalties.
  23. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; toerr.
  24. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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Descendants
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  • → Kashubian:zmisowac(Canada, United States)
Translations
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to fail to hit
to fail to achieve or attain
to avoid; to escape
to feel the absence of someone or something; to feel the want or need of
to fail to understand
to fail to notice, to overlook
to fail to attend
to be late for something
to lack something

Noun

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miss (pluralmisses)

  1. Afailure to physicallyhit.
    In eight shots at the target he had sixmisses.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page76:
      "I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only mademiss aftermiss."
  2. A failure toobtain oraccomplish something; a failure tosucceed.
    After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was amiss.
    Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very closemiss.
    Jones put the penalty shot over the bar — what a terriblemiss.
  3. An act ofavoidance(usually used with the verbgive).
    I think I’ll give the meeting amiss.
  4. (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
    Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a bigmiss for United.
  5. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in acache and therefore needs to be explicitlyloaded.
    • 1999,Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems:
      Already we're seeing fewer cachemisses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.
  6. (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
  7. (obsolete)Error,fault;misdeed,wrongdoing,sin.
  8. (obsolete)Hurt orharm from amistake oraccident.
  9. (obsolete)Loss,lackwant; hence, the feeling of loss.
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Translations
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a failure to hit
a failure to obtain or accomplish
an act of avoidance

Etymology 2

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Frommistress.

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Noun

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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miss (countable anduncountable,pluralmisses)

  1. A title ofrespect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
    You may sit here,miss.
    You may sit here,Miss Jones.
  2. A term of address by a student for a femaleteacher.
    Coordinate term:sir
    Here's my report,miss.
  3. An unmarried woman; agirl.
    • 1771,James Cawthorn,Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Cawthorn, Late Master of Tunbridge School‎[1]:
      While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, andmisses.
  4. Akept woman; amistress.
  5. (card games) In the game of three-cardloo, an extrahand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
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Translations
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Miss—seeMiss
unmarried woman

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishmiss.

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Noun

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miss f (pluralmisses)

  1. beauty queen

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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FromEnglishmiss.

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miss f (pluralmissen,diminutivemissje n)

  1. a winner of abeauty contest
    Annelien Coorevits wasMiss België in 2007.
    Annelien Coorevits wasMiss Belgium in 2007.
  2. abeauty
  3. a girl with a high self-esteem
    Dat is nogal eenmiss, hoor.
    She has some air.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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Adverb

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miss

  1. (Internetslang, text messaging)Abbreviation ofmisschien(“maybe”).

German

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Verb

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miss

  1. singularimperative ofmessen

Maltese

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Verb

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miss

  1. second-personsingularimperative ofmess

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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miss

  1. imperative ofmissa

Old English

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Alternative forms

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  • mis —late Old English

Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*miss, fromProto-Germanic*miss-(“loss, want”), fromProto-Indo-European*meyth₂-(“to change, replace”). Cognate withOld Norsemissir,missa(“loss”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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miss n

  1. loss

Declension

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Stronga-stem:

singularplural
nominativemissmiss
accusativemissmiss
genitivemissesmissa
dativemissemissum

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmiss.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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miss f (indeclinable)

  1. beauty queen

Further reading

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  • miss inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • miss in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmiss.

Noun

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miss f (pluralmiss)

  1. miss(title)

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmiss.

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miss f (pluralmisses,masculinemíster,masculine pluralmísteres)

  1. Miss,beauty queen(winner in a female beauty contest)

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According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Related to the verbmissa.Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Also fromEnglishmiss?.

Noun

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miss c

  1. amiss (failure to hit)
    Synonym:bom
    Var det en träff eller enmiss?
    Was it a hit or amiss?
  2. amistake
    Synonym:misstag
    Jag gjorde enmiss
    I made amistake
    en rejälmiss
    a bigmistake / a hugeblunder
Declension
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Declension ofmiss
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemissmiss
definitemissenmissens
pluralindefinitemissarmissars
definitemissarnamissarnas

Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromEnglishmiss.

Noun

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miss c

  1. Miss ((title for an) unmarried woman (in English-speaking countries))
    Synonym:(native)fröken
  2. aMiss ((title for a) female participant in or winner of a beauty pageant or beauty contest)
    Synonyms:skönhetsmiss,(sometimes, for Swedish contests)fröken
    Miss Hawaii gick vidare till att vinna Miss America-tävlingen
    Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest
    • 1964,Thore Skogman, “Fröken Fräken [Miss Freckle]”‎[2]performed bySven-Ingvars:
      Jag har settmiss Grekland. Jag har settmiss Kina. Nästan alla världens vackramisser har jag mött. Och jag tyckte alla, sköna var och fina. Men när jag kom hem tillVärmland mötte jag en Värmlandsjänta, och hon är för mig det allra sötaste bland sött. Lilla söta fröken Fräken ifrånFryken blevmiss Värmland nu i år. Alla Värmlandspulsar slår när hon genom staden går. Lilla söta fröken Fräken ifrån Fryken, hon är blond som ängens råg. Vackrast utav alla flickorna jag såg.
      I have seenMiss Greece. I have seenMiss China. I have met almost every beautiful Miss in the world [almost all the world's beautifulMisses have I met]. And I thought all of them were beautiful and pretty. But when I came home toVärmland, I met a Värmland gal, and she is to me the very cutest among cute. Cute little Miss Freckle fromFryken becameMiss Värmland [now] this year. All the Värmland pulses beat when she walks through the city. Cute little Miss Freckle from Fryken, she is blonde like the rye of the meadow. The most beautiful of all the girls I saw.
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Declension ofmiss
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemissmiss
definitemissenmissens
pluralindefinitemissermissers
definitemissernamissernas
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Etymology 3

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Onomatopoeic

Interjection

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miss

  1. (rare)Used to call a cat.
    Synonym:kiss
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