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provenience
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun provenience has 1 sense
- provenience(n = noun.location) birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance - 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
provenience, n. [L. proveniens, -entis, p.pr. of provenire to come forth; pro forth + venire to come.].
Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in archæology; as, the provenience of a patera. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
provenience
afterlife, beginning, commencement, conception, derivation, following, fountain, future time, genesis, grass roots, hangover, head, inception, lateness, next life, origin, original, origination, postdate, postdating, posteriority, provenance, radical, radix, remainder, rise, root, sequence, source, stem, stock, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, taproot, well, wellspring, whence
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