premises

Meanings

• noun

  A place or building where something is based, happens, or is carried on. For example, a law court or school.

  - "The trial will take place in the old courthouse premises."
  - "The company's new premises are in the city center."

• noun

  Propositions or assumptions that serve as a starting point for argument or reasoning.

  - "The premises of a mathematical proof."
  - "The premises of a legal case."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with premises
pragmatics , agmatics , hagmatis , magmatics

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Variants

List of all variants of premises that leads to same result
premise , premises , premiss , premisses , premised , premising , off premises , off the premises , on premises , on the premises , major premise , major premises , minor premise , minor premises

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Etymology

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From the Latin 'praemissa,' meaning 'things set before,' from 'praemittere,' 'to set before,' 'to send forth.'

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Trivia

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1. The word 'premises' is related to the word 'premonition,' which means a feeling or intuition that something is about to happen.

2. In real estate, 'premises' refers to the land and buildings that are being sold or rented.

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Related Concepts

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1. Assumptions: Assumptions are beliefs or propositions that are accepted as true without being proven. They can serve as premises for arguments or reasoning.

2. Propositions: Propositions are statements that can be true or false. They can serve as premises for arguments or reasoning.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. Called behavioral ecology, it starts from the "premise" that social and environmental forces select for various behaviors that optimize people's fitness in a given environment. Different environment, different behaviors—and different human "natures."

   - Sharon Begley,{it}Newsweek{/it},29 June 2009

2. Thirty years ago the modesty of the general expectation was still consistent with the original American "premise" of self-government.

   - Lewis H. Lapham,{it}Harper's{/it},November 1992

3. Although the Voting Rights Act served, in some measure, to formalize the notion of racial representation, its consequences undermined its "premise"—that a transparency of interests existed between the representative and the represented.

   - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,{it}New Yorker{/it},24 Oct. 1994

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Culture

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Premises have been used extensively in literature, particularly in legal and philosophical contexts. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the 'premises' of the play refer to the events that set the story in motion. In philosophy, the 'premises' of an argument are the starting points that lead to a conclusion.

How to Memorize "premises"

1. visualize
   

   - To remember the meaning of 'premises,' visualize a place or building where something important happens, such as a courtroom or school.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'premises' with the idea of a starting point or foundation.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym 'P-R-E-M-I-S-E-S' to remember the meaning: 'Place or Building, Reasoning, or Assumptions, Making Inferences, Starting Points, Events, or Settings'.

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