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Pronunciation: [frɒm]
Average Rank: 42
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTprep. 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
Word Frequency Rankings
Wikipedia
#16Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage
Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus
TV & Movie Scripts
#83Conversational and colloquial usage
Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus
Project Gutenberg
#27Classical and literary usage
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.