come from

English

Verb

come from (third-person singular simple present comes from, present participle coming from, simple past came from, past participle come from)

1. (transitive) To have as one's birthplace or nationality.

   Most tourists in Mallorca come from England.   My girlfriend comes from Sweden.

   • 1993 December 12, Jim Sheridan, Terry George, In the Name of the Father, spoken by Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Universal Pictures:

     To explain how I happened to be in England in 1974 at the time of the bombing, I better take you back to Northern Ireland, where I come from.

2. (transitive) To be derived from.
   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 4, page 264:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

3. (transitive, slightly informal) To derive one's opinion or argument from; to take as a conceptual starting point.

   Antonyms: drive at, get at

   Even though I have a more progressive philosophy, I can understand where he's coming from. There was a time in my life when it was hard for me to adapt to change, myself.

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