Provenance synonyms

prŏv'ə-nəns, -näns'

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mother
(Short for) mother of vinegar
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root
The close ties one has with some place or people as through birth, upbringing, long and sympathetic association, etc.
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birthplace
The location where a person was born.
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derivation
In generative linguistics, the generation of a linguistic structure through an ordered or partially ordered series of operations on other structures, such as the creation of a surface structure from a deep structure, or of a complex word from its morphological components.
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home
The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
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origin (related)
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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beginning
The source or cause:
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fount
(Old Poet.) A fountain or spring
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fountain
(Originally) A spring, natural source of water.
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fountainhead
An abundant source of knowledge, etc.
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parent
The definition of a parent is a mother or father.
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provenience
Origin; derivation
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rootstock
(Agriculture) A healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion
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source
The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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spring
Elasticity; resilience:
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well
Well is a wish of good fortune.
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start (related)
An act of beginning; an initial effort:
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cradle
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
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place of origin
where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
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Cripps-Day (related)
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L.C.G (related)
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Provenance Sentence Examples

  • The exact provenance of these cylinders is not known, but there is every reason to believe that they were found in Cyprus.

  • Edmund Naumann was the discoverer of these facts, and his attention was first drawn to them by learning that an edible sea-weed, which flourishes only in salt water, is called Asakusanon, from the place (Asakusa) of its original provenance, which now lies some 3 m.

  • Whatever view be taken of the provenance of Codex Vaticanus it is plain that its archetype had the Pauline epistles in a peculiar order which is only found in Egypt, and so far no one has been able to discover any non-Alexandrian writer who used the Neutral text.

  • Beyond the fact that it was found at Nippur during the fourth of the American expeditions, there does not appear to be any exact record of its provenance; and, in order to determine its date, it is necessary to rely on the external and internal evidence furnished by the tablet itself.

  • We cannot to-day determine the exact homes or provenance of these freebooters, who were a terror alike to the Frankish empire, to England and to Ireland and west Scotland, who only came into view when their ships anchored in some Christian harbour, and who were called now Normanni, now Dacii, now Danes, now Lochlannoch; which last, the Irish name for them, though etymologically " men of the lakes or bays," might as well be translated " Norsemen," seeing that Lochlann was the Irish for Norway.

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