Miss Definition
- To fail to discharge. Used of a firearm.
- To fail to achieve the anticipated result.
- To lose a chance for:
missed out on the promotion.
- To fail to avail oneself of an opportunity.
- To fail to understand.
- missing by a narrow margin has the same practical effect as missing by a wide one
- to fail to guess or predict accurately
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Miss
- miss fire
- miss out on
- miss the boat
- a miss is as good as a mile
- miss one's guess
- miss (something) out
- miss out on
Origin of Miss
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From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person"), Proto-Germanic *missijanÄ… (“to miss, go wrong, fail"), from Proto-Indo-European *meit- (“to change, exchange, trade"). Cognate with North Frisian missen (“to miss"), Dutch missen (“to miss"), German vermissen (“to do without, miss"), Swedish missa (“to miss"), Icelandic missa (“to lose").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English missen from Old English missan mei-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Short for mistress
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From mistress.
From Wiktionary
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