from

Alternative forms

• frome (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /fɹɒm/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: frŭm, IPA: /fɹʌm/
• (unstressed) enPR: frəm, IPA: /fɹəm/

Preposition

from

1. Used to indicate source or provenance.
   • Paul is from New Zealand.
   • I got a letter from my brother.
   • You can't get all your news from the Internet.
2. Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
   • This manuscript is from the 1980s.
3. Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
   • 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!
   1. Indicating a starting point in time.
      • The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
      • Tickets are available from 17th July.
   2. Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
      • Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
      • Start counting from 1.
   3. Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
      • You can study anything from math to literature.
   4. With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
      • 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.
   5. (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being
      • I’ve been doing this from pickney.
4. Indicating removal or separation.
   • After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
   • The general was ousted from power.
   1. (mathematics, chiefly Britain, not in formal use) Denoting a subtraction operation.
      • 20 from 31 leaves 11.
5. Indicating exclusion.
   • She was barred from entering.
   • A parasol protects from the sun.
6. Indicating differentiation.
   • Your opinions differ from mine.
   • He knows right from wrong.
7. Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
   • It's made from pure gold.
8. Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
   • Too many people die from breast cancer.

Anagrams

• -form, FORM, MoRF, form, form-

Preposition

from

1. from
2. Because of; on account of

Pronunciation

• IPA: /frɔmˀ/, [ˈfʁ̥ʌmˀ]

Adjective

from (neuter fromt, plural and definite singular attributive fromme)

1. pious, devout (religious in a serious way)
   • Antonym: ufrom
2. innocent

Pronoun

from (emphatic fromsa)

1. Alternative form of faram (“along with me, beside me; in addition to me; as good as me”)

Alternative forms

• fram, vrom, vram
• fro, fra, vra, fray (from Old Norse)

Preposition

from

1. from
   • Synonym: fra

Pronunciation

• IPA: /from/

Adjective

from

1. bold, firm, resolute

Adjective

from

1. pious, godly, devout, religious

Pronunciation

IPA: /frʊːm/

Adjective

from (comparative frommare, superlative frommast)

1. pious; being religious in a quiet and serious way
2. charitable
   • en from stiftelse ― a charitable foundation, a charity

Anagrams

• form