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premises

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz//
  • Canada//ˈpɹɛməsɪz//
  • Australia//ˈpɹemɪsɪz//
  • //ˈpɹɛmɪsiz//

Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of premiseplural of premise

Etymology

See premise

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of premisethird-person singular simple present indicative of premise

noun

  1. 1

    Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.

    The caretaker lives on the premises.

  2. 2

    The subject of a conveyance or deed.

  3. 3

    obsoleteThe vagina.

    […] ſhe charges her to put him to it as a virgin ought to do; and farther, that as ſoon as he entered the premiſes, with fome feigned reluctancy on her part, muſt fall into a fainting ſhriek, as if ſhe had fallen into a cold water in a hot fit.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).