premises

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/

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See premise

• præmises (archaic)

premises

1. plural of premise

premises

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of premise

premises pl (plural only)

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

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

•   premises on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• emprises, impreses, impresse, mesprise, spiremes