(countable) an oath or affirmation; a vow

Predicted; expected; anticipated. / Under obligation to some future commitment, such as a marriage or vocation. / Due to become manifest because of a past promise.

(transitive, intransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.

simple past tense and past participle of promise

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

Full of promise for the future; 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.