miss

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   leave undone or leave out

   How could I miss that typo?

2. 2
   verb

   fail to experience

   Fortunately, I missed the hurricane

3. 3
   verb

   fail to reach

   The arrow missed the target

4. 4
   verb

   feel or suffer from the lack of

   I miss my family when I'm away from home.

5. 5
   verb

   fail to reach or get to

   I missed the last train and had to take a taxi home.

6. 6
   verb

   fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

   I missed that remark

7. 7
   verb

   fail to attend an event or activity

   I missed the concert

8. 8
   verb

   be absent

   The child had been missing for a week

Etymology

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”). Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), f…