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//fɹɒm// prep

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Preposition
  1. 1
    Used to indicate source or provenance.

    "Paul is from New Zealand."

  2. 2
    Originating at (a year, time, etc.)

    "This manuscript is from the 1980s."

  3. 3
    Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.

    "He had books piled from floor to ceiling."

  4. 4
    Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.; Indicating a starting point in time.

    "The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm."

  5. 5
    Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.; Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.

    "Rate your pain from 1 to 10."

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  1. 6
    Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.; Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.

    "You can study anything from math to literature."

  2. 7
    Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.; With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.

    "It's hard to tell from here."

  3. 8
    Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.; Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being. Multicultural-London-English

    "I’ve been doing this from pickney."

  4. 9
    Indicating removal or separation.

    "After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven."

  5. 10
    Indicating removal or separation.; Denoting a subtraction operation. British

    "20 from 31 leaves 11."

  6. 11
    Indicating exclusion.

    "She was barred from entering."

  7. 12
    Indicating differentiation.

    "Your opinions differ from mine."

  8. 13
    Produced with or out of (a substance or material).

    "It's made from pure gold."

  9. 14
    Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

    "Too many people die from breast cancer."

Etymology

From Middle English from (“from”), from Old English from, fram (“forward, from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fram, from Proto-Germanic *fram (“forward, from, away”). Cognate with Old Saxon fram (“from”) and Old High German fram (“from”), Danish frem (“forth, forward”), Danish fra (“from”), Swedish fram (“forth, forward”), Swedish från (“from”), Norwegian Nynorsk fram (“forward”), Norwegian Nynorsk frå (“from”), Icelandic fram (“forward, on”), Icelandic frá (“from”), Albanian pre, prej. More at fro.

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