PROVENANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does provenance mean? 

• PROVENANCE (noun)
  The noun PROVENANCE has 1 sense:

1. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

  Familiarity information: PROVENANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVENANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

birthplace; cradle; place of origin; provenance; provenience

Context example:

the birthplace of civilization

Hypernyms ("provenance" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

 Context examples 

While impossible to determine exact provenance, the researchers detected a shift in European walrus finds around the 13th century to walruses from an evolutionary branch most prevalent in the waters around Baffin Bay.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)