(UK, colloquial) Looking forward to sexual intercourse later.

Full of promise for the future; promising.

The act of making a promise.

Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. / Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

present participle of promise

plural of promising

Able to be promised.

A promise that one makes should be or can be considered a promise that one will certainly honor.

(idiomatic, sometimes lower case) Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.

(Judaism, Christianity) The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.