Definition of From

What does the word From mean?

• part of speech: noun

  prep. expressing separation& introducing: - person, place, &c., whence motion takes place (comes f. the clouds; repeated f. mouth to mouth); starting-point (f. title to colophon, throughout book; f. 2nd July; f. day to day, daily; f. time to time, occasionally; f. a child, since childhood); inferior limit (saw f. 10 to 20 boats); object &c. whence distance or remoteness is reckoned or stated (ten miles f. Rome; am far f. saying; f. home, out, away; absent, away, f. home; apart f. its moral aspect); thing or person got rid of, escaped, avoided, of which one is deprived &c., person or thing deprived, (took his sword f. him; released him f. prison; cannot refrain f. laughing; appeal f. lower court, dissuade f. folly); state changed for another (f. being attacked became the aggressor; raise penalty f. banishment to death); thing distinguished (doesn\'t know black f. white); source (dig gravel f. pit; draw conclusion f. premisses; quotations f. the fathers); place of vantage &c. (saw it f. the poop; f. his point of view, as he sees things); giver, sender, &c. (gifts f. Providence; frocks f. Worth\'s; things not required f. me); model (painted f. nature); reason, cause, motive, (died f. fatigue; suffering f. dementia; f. his looks you might suppose); advbs or advl phrr. of place or time (f. long ago, of old, above, &c.), or prepositions (f. under her spectacles; f. out the bed). [old English]