premises
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/
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Etymology 1
See premise
Alternative forms
- præmises (archaic)
Noun
premises
Verb
premises
- third-person singular simple present indicative of premise
Etymology 2
Noun
premises pl (plural only)
- Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.
- (law) The subject of a conveyance or deed.
- (obsolete, slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
- 1683, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony, London: H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, , published 1760, pages 81–82:
- […] 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.
Derived terms
Translations
land, and all the built structures on it, considered as a single place
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References
- “premises n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
