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How to pronounce premise?

This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of premise by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of premise through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of premise is /prˈɛmɪs/.

Definition of premise according to Wiktionary:
premise can be a noun or a verb

As a noun premise can mean:
1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2. Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
3. Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
4. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. (This meaning arose from meaning #3, by owners of land and/or buildings finding the word in their title deeds and wrongly guessing its meaning.).
5. The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.

As a verb premise can mean:
1. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
2. To make a premise.
3. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
4. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.



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