English Explanatory Dictionary

from

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep
  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 a starting point in time.
  5. Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
  6. Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
  7. With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
  8. Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
  9. Indicating removal or separation.
  10. Denoting a subtraction operation.
  11. Indicating exclusion.
  12. Indicating differentiation.

Pronunciation

/ˈfɹɒm/ [ˈfɹʷɒm] /ˈfɹɔm/ [ˈfɹʷɔm] /ˈfɹʌm/ [ˈfɹʷʌm] en-us-from.ogg /ˈfɹəm/ [ˈfɹʷəm] ~ [ˈfɹʷm̩]

Word forms

from frome

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.

Synonyms

out of take away

Antonyms

to

Derived words

abstract away from appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober bang from the buck buy out from under come from below come in from the cold drink from the fire hydrant a distance all accounts all reports an early age a standing start A to Z away behind cradle to grave day to day father to son first to last here on in here on out home Kashmir to Kanyakumari memory moment to moment off of someone's mouth to God's ears that time on the first the river to the sea the top this time on fromward fromwards week to week get out from under gift from heaven gift from the goddesses gift from the Gods gift from the heavens grin from ear to ear grow away from hell from above hencefrom herefrom know one's arse from one's elbow know one's head from one's ass know someone from Eve let this cup pass from me manna from heaven Nina from Carolina Nina from Pasadena putt from the rough raise from the dead roll from one's tongue roll from the tongue run away from run from the tongue sell out from under separate the men from the boys

Translations

Arabic: مِن Arabic: عَنْ Arabic: من Aramaic: מן Aramaic: ܡܢ Aromanian: dit Aromanian: ditru Belizean Creole: fahn Bengali: হতে Bengali: হইতে Central Bikol: gikan Catalan: de Chinese Cantonese: 從 /从 Chinese: 按 Chinese: 對 /对 Chinese Mandarin: 從 /从 Chinese Mandarin: 自 Chinese Mandarin: 由 Chinese Mandarin: 由於 /由于 Chinese Mandarin: 出於 /出于 Czech: z Czech: ze Czech: od Danish: fra Dutch: van Dutch: uit Esperanto: el Esperanto: de Esperanto: ekde Estonian: -st Estonian: -lt Finnish: -sta Finnish: -lta French: de West-Frisian: fan Galician: dende German: von Ancient Greek: ἀπό Mycenaean Greek: 𐀀𐀢 Hebrew: מ־ Hebrew: מִן Hungarian: -ból Hungarian: -ből Hungarian: -tól Hungarian: -től Icelandic: frá Interlingua: de Irish: ó Italian: da Italian: di Japanese: から Japanese: より Kapampangan: ibat Khmer: ពី Korean: 부터 Korean: 에서 Latin: ab Latin: a Lithuanian: nuo Macedonian: од Malay: dari Maltese: minn Manchu: ᠴᡳ Manchu: ᡩ᠋ᡝ᠋ᡵᡳ Mòcheno: va Mon: နူ
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