Etimology
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.
preposition
from
Used to indicate source or provenance.
Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating removal or separation.
Indicating exclusion.
Indicating differentiation.
Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
Examples
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.
He departed yesterday from Chicago.
This figure has been changed from a one to a seven.
Face away from the wall!
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
Tickets are available from 17th July.
Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
Start counting from 1.
You can study anything from math to literature.
It's hard to tell from here.
Try to see it from his point of view.
The bomb went off just 100 yards from where they were standing.
From the top of the lighthouse you can just see the mainland.
I’ve been doing this from pickney.
I’ve been a bad boy from a little youth.
After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
The general was ousted from power.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
She was barred from entering.
A parasol protects from the sun.
Your opinions differ from mine.
He knows right from wrong.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
It's made from pure gold.
Too many people die from breast cancer.
Related words
synonyms
(with the source or provenance of or at): out of
(subtraction): take away
antonyms
to