Definition of From:

• Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
• Out of; away; since; noting source or beginning, distance, absence, and departure.
• Out of; away; by reason of.
• Out of; starting at; beginning with; after.
• In a relation of contrast with; as from grave to gay.
• Having as a cause or origin; by means of; due to.
• Away; out of; by reason of. From above; Gay; full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; boneath, from a place or region below; from below, from a lower place; from behind, from a place or position in the rear; from far, from a distant place; from high, from on high, from a high place, from an upper region, or from heaven; from where, from which place; from within, from the interior or inside; from without, from the outside, from abroad.
• Away; out of; denoting distance in space or time; generally denoting separation, removal, or departure: in the following phrases- from above; from afar; from beneath; from behind; from hence, thence, or whence,- the construction may be frequently considered as a preposition and its case: the following phrases - from amidst; from among; from beneath; from beyond; from forth; from off; from out; from out of; from under; from within,- are simply prepositional phrases, and as such followed by an objective case.

Usage examples for From

1. But where did you get it all from, Miss Boyce?  Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward

2. Mrs. Roby monopolised her from the first.  The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) by Edith Wharton

3. " No," said Nele, getting up from the ground.  The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster