miss

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /mɪs/

Verb

miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
   • I missed the target.
   • I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
2. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
   • to miss an opportunity
3. (transitive) To avoid; to escape.
   • The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
4. (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!
5. (transitive) To fail to understand;
   • miss the joke
6. (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.
7. (transitive) To fail to attend.
   • Joe missed the meeting this morning.
8. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
   • I missed the plane!
9. (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
   • The car is missing essential features.
10. (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
    • Miss me with that nonsense!
11. (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!
12. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
13. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
14. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Noun

miss (plural misses)

1. A failure to hit.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
   • I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
4. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

Alternative forms

• Miss
• meess, Meess (archaic, eye dialect)

Noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

1. 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.
2. An unmarried woman; a girl.
3. A kept woman; a mistress.
4. (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.

Anagrams

• ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈmis/

Noun

miss f (plural misses)

1. beauty queen

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪs/

Noun

miss f (plural missen, diminutive missje n)

1. A winner of a beauty contest.
   • Annelien Coorevits was Miss België in 2007.
     • Annelien Coorevits was Miss Belgium in 2007.
2. A beauty.
3. A girl with a high self-esteem.
   • Dat is nogal een miss, hoor.
     • She has some air.

Alternative forms

• mss

Adverb

miss

1. (Internet, slang) Abbreviation of misschien (“maybe”).

Alternative forms

• miß (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪs/

Verb

miss

1. singular imperative of messen

Verb

miss

1. imperative of missa

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miss/, [mis]

Noun

miss n

1. loss; absence

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mis/
• Syllabification: miss

Noun

miss f (indeclinable)

1. beauty queen

Noun

miss f (plural miss)

1. miss

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmis/ [ˈmis]
• Syllabification: miss
• Homophone: mis

Noun

miss f (plural misses, masculine míster, masculine plural místeres)

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

Noun

miss c

1. A failure to hit.
2. A mistake.
3. (rare) A beauty; a winner of a beauty contest.
   • Miss Hawaii gick vidare och vann Miss America-tävlingen
     • Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest