Meaning

12 senses
  1. A failure to physically hit.

    In eight shots at the target he had six misses.

    Fehlschuss

    про́махprómax

    a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)

  2. A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.

    After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.

    Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.

    неуда́чаneudáča, прова́лprovál

  3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).

    I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

    про́пускprópusk

  4. (informal)Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.

    Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.

  5. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

  6. 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. (countable, uncountable)An unmarried woman; a girl.

    Fräulein

    миссmiss, ба́рышняbáryšnja, де́вушкаdévuška

    па́ннаpánna, місmis

    a form of address for an unmarried woman

  8. (countable, uncountable)A kept woman; a mistress.

  9. (countable, uncountable)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.

  10. (obsolete)Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.

  11. (obsolete)Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.

  12. (obsolete)Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.

Examples

4786 sentences
  1. We all miss you very much.

    Ми всі дуже за тобою сумуємо. — deniko

    ruМы все очень по тебе скучаем. — odexed

    deWir vermissen dich alle sehr. — al_ex_an_der

  2. One of my bags is missing.

    У мене пропала одна з сумок. — deniko

    ruУ меня пропала одна из сумок. — odexed

    deEine meiner Taschen fehlt. — Yorwba

  3. This book is missing two pages.

    В цій книжці бракує двох сторінок. — deniko

    ruВ этой книге отсутствуют две страницы. — Gruzilkin

    deDiesem Buch fehlen zwei Seiten. — al_ex_an_der

  4. I missed my bus this morning.

    Сьогодні вранці я не встиг на автобус. — sadxaka

    ruСегодня утром я не успел на автобус. — Hellerick

    deIch habe heute Morgen meinen Bus verpasst. — Manfredo

  5. We may have missed the bus.

    Ми, може бути, спізнилися на автобус. — deniko

    deWir haben vielleicht den Bus verpasst. — mayabe

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
unmarried woman:
Русский
By meaning 4
a failure to hit:
a failure to obtain or accomplish:
an act of avoidance:
unmarried woman:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a failure to hit:
unmarried woman:

Origin

Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a

Verb 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 *meyth₂- (“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, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).

From mistress.

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Forms

plural: misses
Singularmiss
Pluralmisses

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • missed the train
  • going to miss
  • missed the bus
  • want to miss
  • missed the last
  • missing the point
  • may have missed
  • missed his train
  • missing something
  • misses his wife
  • missed the target
  • missed his bus

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
miss — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto