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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 existence
Familiarity information: PROVENIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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