Usually means: Origin or source of something.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word provenance:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. provenance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. provenance: Merriam-Webster
  3. provenance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. provenance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. provenance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. provenance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Provenance, provenance: Wordnik
  8. provenance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. provenance: Wiktionary
  10. provenance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. provenance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. provenance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Provenance, provenance: Dictionary.com
  14. provenance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Provenance (Numbers), Provenance (The X-Files), Provenance (disambiguation), Provenance (geology), Provenance (novel), Provenance, The Provenance (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. provenance: Rhymezone
  17. provenance: FreeDictionary.org
  18. provenance: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. provenance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. provenance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. provenance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. provenance: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provenance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provenance: A Word A Day

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Provenance: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. provenance: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Place or source of origin.
noun:  (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
noun:  (art) The history of ownership of a work of art.
noun:  (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
noun:  (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
noun:  (of a person) Background; history; place of origin.
verb:  To establish the provenance of something

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