premises

Noun

Meaning

of Premise

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

land property site location facility establishment proposition premise grounds real estate hypotheses buildings assumptions suppositions house
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Antonyms

cell convenience ends questions Fears contests
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Hypernyms

site land site

Phrases with the word

on the premises not on the premises business premises live on the premises licensed bookmaker's premises physical business premises

Anagrams

mesprise impresse

Examples

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler (novelist)

I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. Jimmy Carter

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. Oliver Goldsmith

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe. Gregory Bateson

The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

premiparous premise premised premises of a bookmaker premisory premiss