premises
nounCA, US, UK /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/ · /ˈpɹɛmɪsiz/
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
Euphemistic, Obsolete, Slang The vagina.
- […] 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.1683, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony, London: […] H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, […], published 1760, pages 81–82:
- Derived terms
- off-premises, on-premise, on the premises