miss
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /mɪs/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪs
Etymology 1
From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).
Verb
miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
- I missed the target.
- I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua 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 they miss.
- 1666, Edmund Waller, "Instructions to a Painter:
- Flying bullets now,
To execute his rage, appear too slow;
They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- to miss an opportunity
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
- When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
- (transitive) To avoid; to escape.
- The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- I miss you! Come home soon!
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 58:
- […] what by me thou haſt loſt thou leaſt ſhalt miſs.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
- (transitive) To fail to understand;
- miss the joke
- (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
- (transitive) To fail to attend.
- Joe missed the meeting this morning.
- (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- I missed the plane!
- (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- The car is missing essential features.
- (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- Miss me with that nonsense!
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC 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 Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2:
- Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Antonyms
Derived terms
- blink-and-you'll-miss-it
- blink-and-you-miss-it
- hit-and-miss
- hit-or-miss
- hit-or-miss transform
- I miss you
- I never miss
- miss a beat
- miss a trick
- miss fire, misfire
- miss-meal colic
- miss off
- miss oneself
- miss one's guess
- miss one's tip
- miss out
- miss someone's point
- miss stays
- miss the boat
- miss the bus
- miss the forest for the trees
- miss the mark
- miss the memo
- miss the point
- miss the wood for the trees
- miss the woods for the trees
- near miss
- you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
- you miss 100% of the shots you don't take
- you never miss the water till the well runs dry
- you never miss the water until the well runs dry
Descendants
- → Kashubian: zmisowac (Canada, United States)
Translations
to fail to hit
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to fail to achieve or attain
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to avoid; to escape
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to feel the absence of someone or something; to feel the want or need of
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to fail to understand
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to fail to notice, to overlook
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to fail to attend
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to be late for something
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Etymology 2
From Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).
Noun
miss (plural misses)
- A failure to hit.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76:
- "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 made miss after miss."
- A failure to obtain or accomplish.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
- I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- 1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems:
- Already we're seeing fewer cache misses 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.
- (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
- (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
- (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
Derived terms
Translations
a failure to hit
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a failure to obtain or accomplish
Etymology 3
From mistress.
Alternative forms
- Miss
- meess, Meess (archaic, eye dialect)
Noun
miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)
- A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
- You may sit here, miss.
- You may sit here, Miss Jones.
- A term of address by a student for a female teacher.
- Coordinate term: sir
- Here's my report, miss.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- 1771, James Cawthorn, Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Cawthorn, Late Master of Tunbridge School:
- 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, and misses.
- A kept woman; a mistress.
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- courting a Miss
- (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Miss — see Miss
unmarried woman
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Anagrams
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
miss f (plural misses)
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
miss f (plural missen, diminutive missje n)
- a winner of a beauty contest
- Annelien Coorevits was Miss België in 2007.
- Annelien Coorevits was Miss Belgium in 2007.
- a beauty
- a girl with a high self-esteem
- Dat is nogal een miss, hoor.
- She has some air.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
Adverb
miss
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of misschien (“maybe”).
Alternative forms
- miß (superseded)
Pronunciation
Verb
miss
Pronunciation
Verb
miss
Verb
miss
- imperative of missa
Alternative forms
- mis — late Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss, want”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, replace”). Cognate with Old Norse missir, missa (“loss”).
Pronunciation
Noun
miss n
Declension
Declension of miss (strong a-stem)
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English miss.
Pronunciation
Noun
miss f (indeclinable)
Further reading
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English miss.
Noun
miss f (plural miss)
- miss (title)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English miss.
Pronunciation
Noun
miss f (plural misses, masculine míster, masculine plural místeres)
- Miss, beauty queen (winner in a female beauty contest)
Usage notes
According to Royal 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.
Further reading
- “miss”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Etymology 1
Related to the verb missa. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Also from English miss?.
Noun
miss c
- a miss (failure to hit)
- Synonym: bom
- Var det en träff eller en miss?
- Was it a hit or a miss?
- a mistake
- Synonym: misstag
- Jag gjorde en miss
- I made a mistake
- en rejäl miss
- a big mistake / a huge blunder
Declension
Declension of miss
Etymology 2
Noun
miss c
- Miss ((title for an) unmarried woman (in English-speaking countries))
- Synonym: (native) fröken
- a Miss ((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 (lyrics and music), “Fröken Fräken [Miss Freckle]”performed by Sven-Ingvars:
- Jag har sett miss Grekland. Jag har sett miss Kina. Nästan alla världens vackra misser har jag mött. Och jag tyckte alla, sköna var och fina. Men när jag kom hem till Värmland mötte jag en Värmlandsjänta, och hon är för mig det allra sötaste bland sött. Lilla söta fröken Fräken ifrån Fryken blev miss 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 seen Miss Greece. I have seen Miss China. I have met almost every beautiful Miss in the world [almost all the world's beautiful Misses have I met]. And I thought all of them were beautiful and pretty. But when I came home to Värmland, I met a Värmland gal, and she is to me the very cutest among cute. Cute little Miss Freckle from Fryken became Miss 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.
Declension
Declension of miss
See also
- skönhetsdrottning (“beauty queen”)
- skönhetstävling (“beauty pageant, beauty contest”)
Etymology 3
Interjection
miss
Derived terms
References
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