prŏv'ə-nəns, -näns'
(Short for) mother of vinegar
The close ties one has with some place or people as through birth, upbringing, long and sympathetic association, etc.
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.
The source or cause:
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(Old Poet.) A fountain or spring
The definition of a parent is a mother or father.
Origin; derivation
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Elasticity; resilience:
A compartment or recessed area in a ship, used for stowage:
start (related)
An act of beginning; an initial effort:
where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
Cripps-Day (related)
L.C.G (related)
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