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Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.
Eli Broad

Meaning of "provenance" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROVENANCE

From French, from provenir, from Latin prōvenīre to originate, from venīre to come.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROVENANCE

provenance  [ˈprɒvɪnəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROVENANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Provenance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROVENANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

provenance

Provenance

Provenance, is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed books, and science and computing. The primary purpose of tracing the provenance of an object or entity is normally to provide contextual and circumstantial evidence for its original production or discovery, by establishing, as far as practicable, its later history, especially the sequences of its formal ownership, custody, and places of storage. The practice has a particular value in helping authenticate objects. Comparative techniques, expert opinions, and the results of scientific tests may also be used to these ends, but establishing provenance is essentially a matter of documentation. In archaeology, the term provenience is used in related but a subtly different sense to provenance.

Definition of provenance in the English dictionary

The definition of provenance in the dictionary is a place of origin, esp that of a work of art or archaeological specimen.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROVENANCE


abstinence
ˈæbstɪnəns
appurtenance
əˈpɜːtɪnəns
chrominance
ˈkrəʊmɪnəns
codominance
kəʊˈdɒmɪnəns
continence
ˈkɒntɪnəns
countenance
ˈkaʊntɪnəns
discountenance
dɪsˈkaʊntɪnəns
dominance
ˈdɒmɪnəns
eminence
ˈɛmɪnəns
illuminance
ɪˈluːmɪnəns
imminence
ˈɪmɪnəns
impertinence
ɪmˈpɜːtɪnəns
incontinence
ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns
luminance
ˈluːmɪnəns
maintenance
ˈmeɪntɪnəns
ordinance
ˈɔːdɪnəns
pertinence
ˈpɜːtɪnəns
pre-eminence
prɪˈemɪnəns
predominance
prɪˈdɒmɪnəns
prominence
ˈprɒmɪnəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROVENANCE

prove
proveable
proveably
provection
proveditor
proveditore
provedore
proven
Provence
provender
provenience
provenly
proventricular
proventriculi
proventriculus
prover
proverb
proverbial
proverbialise
proverbialism

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROVENANCE

advance
alternance
car maintenance
care and maintenance
clinical governance
corporate governance
dissonance
electron paramagnetic resonance
finance
governance
high-maintenance
magnetic resonance
nance
nuclear magnetic resonance
ordnance
ordonnance
penance
refinance
resonance
sonance
sustenance

Synonyms and antonyms of provenance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROVENANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «provenance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of provenance

Translation of «provenance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROVENANCE

Find out the translation of provenance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of provenance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «provenance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

出处
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

procedencia
570 millions of speakers

English

provenance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उद्गम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المصدر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

происхождения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proveniência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উত্পত্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

provenance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Provenance
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Herkunft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

来歴
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

출처
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Provenance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguồn gốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தோற்றுவாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उद्भव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaynak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

provenienza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pochodzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

походження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proveniență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προέλευσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

herkoms
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proveniens
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proveniens
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of provenance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROVENANCE»

The term «provenance» is very widely used and occupies the 22.520 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROVENANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «provenance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «provenance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about provenance

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QUOTES WITH «PROVENANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word provenance.
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Eli Broad
Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROVENANCE»

Discover the use of provenance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to provenance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History ...
The true story of one of the twentieth century's most audacious art frauds Filled with extraordinary characters and told at breakneck speed, Provenance reads like a well-plotted thriller. But this is most certainly not fiction.
Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo, 2009
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Provenance
"Ronnie Burkett has a bad habit of making the rest of theatre look unnecessary.
Ronnie Burkett, 2005
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Provenance
Ilian's grandparents, not knowing quite what to do, placed her in a nearby convent. The nuns were kind, but as there were no other children her age, Ilian, then 4, spent her days playing by herself in the convent courtyard.
Ilian Stuart, 2004
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Provenance
Finding the relic is a divine quest.
Alex Archer, 2008
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The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, Or ...
This book analyzes a substantial corpus of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, proposing a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest (Christian) manuscripts and inferring still earlier Jewish or other ...
James R. Davila, 2005
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Worlds of Food : Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food ...
Three leading scholars in the field explain why place and provenance are assuming more importance in the food chain to producers, consumers, and regulators.
Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch, 2006
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Provenance: poems
In "Provenance" the author explores not only her own roots, but the roots of words. She offers 26 poems--one for every letter--and braids autobiography with the biographies of "Apricot" and "Zygote" and everything in between.
Brandel France de Bravo, 2008
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Provenance: twelve collectors of ethnographic art in ...
"The purpose of this volume of essays is to introduce a dozen colectors of ethnography, active between 1770 and 1990 in Britain.
Hermione Waterfield, Jonathan C. H. King, 2010
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Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes: Second ...
The unprecedented volume of data acquired from sensors, derived by simulations and data analysis processes, accumulated in warehouses, and often shared on the Web, has given risetoanew?eldofresearch:provenancemanagement ...
Juliana Freire, David Koop, Luc Moreau, 2008
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Provenance
This is a story of music across the ages, of obsession and betrayal, of destiny and, above all, of true love.
Robert Field, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROVENANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term provenance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hindus urge National Gallery of Australia to expedite provenance of …
Hindus are urging National Gallery of Australia (NGA) to quicken the provenance of statues of Hindu deities "selected for review" and if proved stolen, return ... «Merinews, Jul 15»
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Provenance has claims on Sandown
Provenance attempts to open her Listed race account in the Ambant Gala Stakes at Sandown on Friday after several decent efforts in similar company. Placed in ... «Racinguk.com - pure racing entertainment, Jul 15»
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Provenance Hotels Celebrates the Return of Uber With a Chance to …
To celebrate the return of Uber to the streets of Portland, today Provenance Hotels will be giving four lucky folks (and their guest of choice) a one-night stay at ... «GoLocalPDX, Jun 15»
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Provenance Hotels buys out partner in downtown hotel Sentinel
A promotional photo of the downtown hotel Sentinel. Operator Provenance Hotels has bought out its joint venture partner's stake it in the hotel, it said ... «OregonLive.com, Mar 15»
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Food File: Provenance is priority at food writers' awards
Provenance is always paramount when the members of the Irish Food Writers' Guild meet to decide who and what will be the recipients of the group's annual ... «Irish Times, Mar 15»
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The Dutch Stedelijk Museum Questions Origins of Some of Its Art
The Stedelijk is displaying facsimiles of provenance records for the 16 works that ... German museums may worry that publishing their provenance records could ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
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Provenance Hotels Continues Expansion in Pacific Northwest
Provenance Hotels and NBP Capital have teamed to acquire the Roosevelt Hotel, a historic 151-key hotel in Seattle, from North Coast Washington, L.L.C., with ... «Commercial Property Executive, Feb 15»
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Catering for a growing demand for quality and provenance
Since 2006, Heather Finn has been mixing crochet, hand knitting and felting with machine knitting to create her own distinctive style of designer knitwear. «Irish Times, Feb 15»
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Tough new food GCSE to test pupils on poached eggs, palmiers and …
Pupils have to learn about food provenance, British and international culinary traditions, food security, food labelling and food poisoning. Other topics include ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
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Innocent kicks off 2015 with provenance TV ad
The Coca-Cola owned brand said the ad features an Indian mango farmer to highlight the provenance of its fruit juice. The ad will break today and run on TV, ... «Marketing, Jan 15»

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