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Pronunciation: [frɒm]

Average Rank: 42

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

prep. 从, 来自, 根据

Detailed Explanations:
  • prep. 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.
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#16

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 99.8% (Top 99.8% most frequent)
99.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#83

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 99.2% (Top 99.2% most frequent)
99.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#27

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 99.7% (Top 99.7% most frequent)
99.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.