come from
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come from verb
- To have as one's birthplace or nationality.“Most tourists in Mallorca come from England. My girlfriend comes from Sweden.”
- To be derived from.
- (slightly informal) To derive one's opinion or argument from; to take as a conceptual starting point.“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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comeproceedderivebreedoriginategive birthbe bornemanateinheritgo back tospringbirthstemcome ofnativizecome into the world
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