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Pronunciation: /frɒm, frəm/
preposition
- 1indicating the point in space at which a journey, motion, or action starts: she began to walk away from him I leapt from my bed figurative he was turning the Chamberlain government away from appeasement
- indicating the distance between a particular place and another place used as a point of reference: the ambush occurred 50 metres from a checkpoint
- 2indicating the point in time at which a particular process, event, or activity starts: the show will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- 3indicating the source or provenance of someone or something: I’m from Hackney she rang him from the hotel she demanded the keys from her husband
- indicating the date at which something was created: a document dating from the thirteenth century
- 4indicating the starting point of a specified range on a scale: men who ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-four
- indicating one extreme in a range of conceptual variations: anything from geography to literature
- 5indicating the point at which an observer is placed: you can see the island from here figurative the ability to see things from another’s point of view
- 6indicating the raw material out of which something is manufactured: a paint made from a natural resin
Phrases
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as from
- see as1
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from day to day (or hour to hour etc.)
- daily (or hourly etc.); as the days (or hours etc.) pass.
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from now (or then etc.) on
- now (or then etc.) and in the future: they were friends from that day on
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from time to time
- occasionally.
Origin:
Old English fram, from, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse frá (see fro)