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provenance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun provenance has 1 sense
- provenance(n = noun.location) birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" is a kind of beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
CIDE DICTIONARY
provenance, n. [F., fr. provenir to originate, to come forth, L. provenire. Cf. Provenience.].
Origin; source; provenience.
"Their age attested by their provenance and associations."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
provenance, n.
1 the place of origin or history, esp. of a work of art etc.
2 origin.
1 the place of origin or history, esp. of a work of art etc.
2 origin.
Etymology
F f. provenir f. L provenire (as PRO-(1), venire come)
THESAURUS
provenance
beginning, commencement, conception, derivation, fountain, genesis, grass roots, head, inception, origin, original, origination, provenience, radical, radix, rise, root, source, stem, stock, taproot, well, wellspring, whence
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