Meaning

Used to indicate source or provenance..

Definitions by Sense

1. Used to indicate source or provenance.
2. Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
3. Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
4. Indicating removal or separation.
5. Indicating exclusion.
6. Indicating differentiation.
7. Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
8. Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

Example Sentences

Paul is from New Zealand.

I got a letter from my brother.

You can't get all your news from the Internet.

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

This manuscript is from the 1980s.

He had books piled from floor to ceiling.

Word Forms

• frome

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Use from when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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