miss /mis/

Meaning

English definition

• (n.) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
• (n.) a form of address for an unmarried woman
• (v.) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

Chinese translation

• n. 失误, 避免, 失败, 小姐
• vt. 未得到, 未达到, 未听到, 未觉察, 逃脱, 遗漏, 错过, 思念
• vi. 失败, 击不中

Word details

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

/mis/

Syllables

1

Exam levels

Middle-school · Gaokao

Frequency

Zipf 5.22 · Common

Word forms

missed, missing, misses

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