# from

Pronunciation: US say "FRUM" /fɹʌm/; UK say "FROM" /fɹɒm/

## Preposition

1. Indicating the source, origin or provenance of someone or something, including the time or period it comes from.
   - Simple: Used to say where or when someone or something comes from, as in a letter from Mom or a song from 1965.
   - _We received a call from the hospital._
   - _Most of her ideas come from books._
2. Indicating the starting point of a route, scale, or range, often paired with to.
   - Simple: Shows where a route or range begins, as in from the coast to the mountains.
   - _The road runs from the coast to the mountains._
   - _Rooms at the inn range from ninety to two hundred dollars a night._
3. Marking the time at which something begins.
   - Simple: Used to give the time when something starts, as in 'from nine to five'.
   - _Applications are accepted from Monday._
   - _They were friends from that day on._
4. Indicating removal or separation.
   - Simple: Used when something is taken away or moved out of a place, as in 'remove from the oven'.
   - _The manager was removed from his post._
   - _She pulled the splinter from her finger._
5. Indicating cause; because of or as a result of.
   - Simple: Because of something, as in 'he was tired from the long walk'.
   - _Thousands died from the famine._
   - _His hands were rough from years of work._
6. Indicating exclusion or protection.
   - Simple: Used to say what someone is kept out of or protected against, as in 'barred from'.
   - _The fence protects the garden from deer._
   - _She was excused from the exam._
7. With reference to the position of an observer or a vantage point.
   - Simple: Used for the place where someone is looking or judging from, as in 'from here'.
   - _Seen from above, the fields formed a patchwork._
   - _From the back row, the stage looked tiny._
8. Indicating differentiation between one thing and another.
   - Simple: Used when telling one thing apart from another, as in 'right from wrong'.
   - _It is hard to distinguish the real coins from the fakes._
   - _The new rules differ from the old ones in two ways._
9. Indicating the substance or material out of which something is produced.
   - Simple: Made using a certain material, as in 'made from wood'.
   - _The sauce is made from fresh tomatoes._
   - _They built a raft from empty barrels._
11. In mathematics, chiefly British and informal: denoting subtraction; 20 from 30 leaves 10. *(British)*
   - Simple: In maths, used to say that the first number is taken off the second.
   - _Seven from twelve is five, the teacher said._
   - _What's nine from twenty?_
10. Indicating the starting state of the subject; since being. *(dialectal, Multicultural London English)*
   - Simple: In London street speech, 'since being', as in 'from young' (since childhood).
   - _My cousin's been playing football from young, so he's properly good now._
   - _He wanted to be a boxer from young._

## Origin

It comes from Middle English "from," from Old English "from" or "fram" ("forward, from"), which traces back through Proto-West Germanic and Proto-Germanic *fram ("forward, from, away"). It is related to Old Saxon and Old High German "fram," Danish "fra," Swedish "från," and Icelandic "frá."

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