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provenances

provenances is the plural of provenance.

provenances is the third-person singular simple present indicative of provenance.

Meaning of provenance

Noun

provenance (countable and uncountable, plural provenances)

  1. Place or source of origin.
    • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  2. The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
    • This spear is of Viking provenance.
  3. The history of ownership of a work of art.
    • The picture is of royal provenance.
  4. 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).
  5. The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
  6. Background; history; place of origin.
    Synonyms:
    ancestry

See all 7 meanings of provenance

Questions about provenances

What is provenances the plural of?
Provenances is the plural of provenance.

Words near provenances in the dictionary

  1. Provel
  2. proven
  3. proven out
  4. provenance
  5. provenanced
  6. provenances
  7. provenancing
  8. provenantial
  9. Provencal
  10. Provence
  11. Provence rose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: provenances (page history and authors); provenance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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