prem

See also: Prem, prèm, and prém

English

Etymology 1

From Premier League.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɛm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm

Noun

prem (plural prems)

1. (informal, soccer) The Premier League.

Etymology 2

Shortening of premature.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɛm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm

Noun

prem (plural prems)

1. (informal) A prematurely born infant.
   • 2007, Wilbur Smith, Rage, page 200:

     Men are such clots, dates don't mean much to them, and if he does start counting, you can always bribe the doctor to tell him it's a prem.

Synonyms

• preemie
• premie

Etymology 3

Shortening of premises.

Noun

prem (plural prems)

1. Premises, usually in the term off-prem and on-prem.

See also

• off-prem
• on-prem

Anagrams

• Emp'r, Perm, perm

Catalan

Verb

prem

1. inflection of prémer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Indonesian

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prem

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch pruim, from Middle Dutch prume, from Old Dutch *prūma, a variant of *plūma, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, from Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈprəm/ [ˈprəm]
• Rhymes: -əm
• Syllabification: prem

Noun

prem (plural prem-prem)

1. (botany) plum

   Synonym: prunus

Further reading

• “prem”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Romansch

Noun

prem m (plural prems)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) prune

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) primbla, (Vallader) brümbla
• (Sursilvan) prema
• (Sursilvan) zuesca, (Sutsilvan) zvetga
• (Sutsilvan) paloja, (Puter) paloga
• (Puter) prüna