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say it: PREM-uh-suhz
premises is a noun meaning "land and the buildings on it". It carries one recorded sense.
land and the buildings on it
“bread is baked on the premises”
“the were evicted from the premises”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for premises come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.