Associations to the word «Provenance»
Noun
- Contamination
- Clone
- Date
- Custody
- Object
- Museum
- Variation
- Archaeology
- Collecting
- Seal
- Text
- Fragment
- Handling
- Artwork
- Nursery
- Trace
- Indication
- Identification
- Leonardo
- Productivity
- Exhibition
- Context
- Gum
- Nazis
- Significance
- Buyer
- Vase
- Scripture
- Evidence
- Manufacture
- Preservation
- Integrity
- Dissolution
- Expert
- Analysis
- Seed
- Diversity
- Bce
- Source
- Pine
- Selection
- Archive
- Detail
- Information
- Ware
- Sale
- Cultivation
- Record
- Interpretation
- Owner
- Fibre
- Coin
- Taxonomy
- Statue
- Reproduction
- Tradition
- Seller
- Improvement
- Skull
- Egypt
- Copy
- Fraud
- Harp
- Recipe
Adjective
Wiktionary
PROVENANCE, noun. Place or source of origin.
PROVENANCE, noun. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
PROVENANCE, noun. (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
PROVENANCE, noun. (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
PROVENANCE, noun. (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
PROVENANCE, noun. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
PROVENANCE, verb. To establish the provenance of something
Dictionary definition
PROVENANCE, noun. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.