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PREMISES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Land and the buildings on it
Example:
the were evicted from the premises
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("premises" is a kind of...):
land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb premise
Context examples:
The premises are before you.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,—and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
‘Oh,’ said he, ‘his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think, with your permission, I will now take a stroll round the premises.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That individual is in legal possession of the premises, under a distress for rent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In that case I should be glad to hear the evidence and to examine the premises without an instant of unnecessary delay.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On examining the premises the body of the unfortunate watchman was found doubled up and thrust into the largest of the safes, where it would not have been discovered until Monday morning had it not been for the prompt action of Sergeant Tuson.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fanny, having been sent into the village on some errand by her aunt Norris, was overtaken by a heavy shower close to the Parsonage; and being descried from one of the windows endeavouring to find shelter under the branches and lingering leaves of an oak just beyond their premises, was forced, though not without some modest reluctance on her part, to come in.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The influence of fresh objects and fresh air, however, was of great use in dissipating these embarrassing associations; and, having reached the ornamental part of the premises, consisting of a walk round two sides of a meadow, on which Henry's genius had begun to act about half a year ago, she was sufficiently recovered to think it prettier than any pleasure-ground she had ever been in before, though there was not a shrub in it higher than the green bench in the corner.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
