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.

An extensible ontology for quality constraints is constructed with a number of quality parameters such as accuracy, resolution, freshness, certainty, and provenance.

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.

There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun provenance, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Nov 21, 2025 · provenance (countable and uncountable, plural provenances) Place or source of origin.

PROVENANCE definition: place or source of origin. See examples of provenance used in a sentence.

"origin, place from which something comes," 1881, a Latinization of provenance, or else from Latin provenientem (nominative proveniens), present participle of provenire "come forth" (see provenance).

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