Provenance
/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:17 ptsWWF:22 pts10 letters
Definition of Provenance
noun
- Place or source of origin.
"Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products."
- The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
"This spear is of Viking provenance."
- The history of ownership of a work of art
"The picture is of royal provenance."
- The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
- The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
verb
- To establish the provenance of something
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ancestry