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PROVENIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does provenience mean? 

PROVENIENCE (noun)
  The noun PROVENIENCE has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PROVENIENCE (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 ("provenience" is a kind of...):

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


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