premises

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹemɪsɪz/

Etymology 1

See premise

Alternative forms

• præmises (archaic)

Noun

premises

1. plural of premise

Verb

premises

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of premise

Etymology 2

Noun

premises pl (plural only)

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

   The caretaker lives on the premises.

2. (law) The subject of a conveyance or deed.
3. (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

• licensed premises
• off-premises
• on-premise
• on the premises
• servient premises
• sex-on-premises venue

Translations

land, and all the built structures on it, considered as a single place

Chinese: Mandarin: 房地 (zh) (fángdì), 房屋 (zh) (fángwū) (building), (please verify) 廠址 / 厂址 (zh) (chǎngzhǐ) Dutch: pand (nl) n Finnish: kiinteistö (fi) French: local (fr) m German: Lokal (de) n, Räumlichkeiten (de) f pl, Gelände (de) n Hindi: परिसर (hi) (parisar) Hungarian: birtok (hu), telephely (hu), létesítmény (hu), helyszín (hu), terület (hu), telek (hu) Italian: locale (it) m Japanese: 邸内 (ja) (ていない, teinai), 構内 (ja) (こうない, kōnai) Malayalam: പരിസരം (ml) (parisaraṁ) Norwegian: eiendom m Polish: nieruchomość (pl) f, posesja (pl) f Portuguese: local (pt) m Russian: террито́рия (ru) f (territórija) (territory), помеще́ние (ru) n (pomeščénije) (room), зда́ние (ru) n (zdánije) (building), недви́жимость (ru) f (nedvížimostʹ) (real estate), владе́ние (ru) n (vladénije) (possession) Spanish: sitio (es) m, local (es) m, propiedad (es) f, lugar (es) m, recinto (es) m, instalaciones (es) f pl, establecimiento (es) m, edificio (es) m, locus (es) m Ukrainian: терито́рія (uk) f (terytórija), тере́на m pl (teréna), примі́щення (uk) n (prymíščennja)

References

• “premises n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Further reading

• premises on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emprises, impreses, impresse, mesprise, spiremes