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| Main Entry: |
premises
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grounds and buildings |
| Synonyms: | bounds, campus, digs, establishment, fix, flat, hangout, home, house, joint*, land, lay, layout, limits, neck of the woods, office, pad, place, plant, property, real estate, roof, scene, site, spot, terrace, turf, zone |
| Notes: | a premise is a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; premises are land and buildings together considered as a place of business |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | premise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hypothesize |
| Synonyms: | announce, assume, begin, commence, introduce, posit, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, start, state, suppose |
| Notes: | a premise is a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; premises are land and buildings together considered as a place of business |
| Antonyms: | be factual |
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | estate, domain |
| Synonyms: | acreage, area, campus, country, district, environs, fields, gardens, habitat, holding, land, lot, premises, property, real estate, realm, sphere, spot, terrace, terrain, territory, tract, zone |
| Main Entry: | property |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possessions, real estate |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, assets, belongings, buildings, capital, chattels, claim, dominion, effects, equity, estate, farm, freehold, goods, holdings, home, house, inheritance, land, means, ownership, plot, possessorship, premises, proprietary, proprietorship, realty, resources, riches, substance, title, tract, wealth, worth |
| Main Entry: | holding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | property held |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, assets, belongings, buildings, capital, chattels, claim, dominion, effects, equity, estate, farm, freehold, goods*, holdings, home, house, inheritance, land, means, ownership, plot, possession, possessorship, premises, property, proprietar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking something for granted; something expected |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accepting, assuming, belief, conjecture, expectation, fancy, guess, hunch, hypothesis, inference, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presumption, presupposition, shot in the dark, shot*, sneaking suspicion, stab, supposal, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorization, theory |
| Antonyms: | doubt, unexpected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | basis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation for belief, action |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, assumption, authority, axiom, backbone, background, backing, base, bedrock, cause, center, chief ingredient, core, crux, data, dictum, essence, essential, evidence, explanation, footing, fundamental, hard fact, heart, infrastructure, justification, keynote, keystone, law, nexus, nucleus, postulate, premise, presumption, presupposition, principal element, principle, proof, reason, root, rudiment, sanction, security, source, substratum, support, theorem, theory, underpinning, warrant |
| Main Entry: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, lemma, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presupposition, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark, speculation, starting point, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, tentative law, term, theorem, thesis |
| Antonyms: | calcualtion, measurement, proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | nucleus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | core; basis for something's |
| Synonyms: | beginning bud, center, crux, embryo, focus, foundation, germ, heart, hub, kernel, matter, nub, pivot, premise, principle, seed, spark |
| Antonyms: | exterior, exteriority, outside |
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