The meaning of PROVENANCE is origin, source. How to use provenance in a sentence.

Provenance covers an object's complete documented history. An artifact may thus have both a provenience and a provenance.

Negative judgments on social class, nationality, education, regional provenance, and accent, can all manifest themselves as linguistic prejudice.

Definition of provenance noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

prov•e•nance (ˈprɒv ə nəns, -ˌnɑns) n. place or source of origin: a manuscript of unknown provenance.

Nov 21, 2025 · (computing) 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).

The provenance of something is the place that it comes from or that it originally came from.