Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun provenience

1 sense of provenience

Sense 1
birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience -- (where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization")
       => beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root")