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Provenience

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A source or origin.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Source; origin.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in archæology.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Origin; the place from which something comes or is derived; the place of production or derivation of an object, especially in the fine arts and in archæology. Compare provenance.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"One problem with using a metal detector to identify buried metal artifacts is that when the metal is dug up, the context, or what archaeologists call provenience, is lost."

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beginning rootage source root origin

Synonym

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origin source provenance

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