come from somewhere/sth
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
A1 to be born, got from, or made in a particular place:
She comes from Italy.
Some of the best wines come from France.
Does that quote come from Shakespeare?
She could hear banging coming from the room upstairs.
Where will the money for the project come from?
More examples
- He's American but his family come/comes from Ireland.
- They come from a privileged/wealthy background.
- The two passenger trains involved in the accident had both come from southwest London.
- His family originally came from Ireland, but resettled in the US in the 19th century.
- I could hear loud snores coming from Jim's bedroom.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Origins and sources
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- derivation
- fount
- genesis
- hail from somewhere
- issue
- issue from sth
- origin
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from sth
- the cradle of sth idiom
- ur-
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