come from

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1. transitiveTo have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.

   Most tourists in Mallorca come from England. My girlfriend comes from Sweden.

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   Thou comest from the realm without a name, […]

   1822 June–July (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Triumph of Life”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 89

   Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well; more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next.

   1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood turns Butcher”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 48

   Hai, my son, thou hast never learned all that since thou camest from Belait (Europe). Who suckled thee?

   1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IV, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 107

   ACCORDING to various inscriptions about this famous temple we are told that it was erected to the memory of Ya Fei, "An Unswerving Guardian to the Heir-Apparent," of the Sung dynasty; "A Loyal-to-the-end Minister," who came from the ancient state of O-Kuo, the present Wu Ch'ang-fu of Hupei; and that it was erected by the Emperor Hsiao Tsung as an atonement for the weakness and follies of his father, Kao Tsung, toward a faithful servant of the empire who came to his untimely death through the diabolical schemes of men in high estate. Moreover, that after his death and burial, when the empire came to appreciate his great services to the people, the posthumous title of " Prince of O-Kuo" was bestowed upon his sacred memory.

   1906, Frederick D. Cloud, Hangchow, the "City of Heaven", Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 53

   To explain how I happened to be in England in 1974 at the time of the bombing, I better take you back to Northern Ireland, where I come from.

   1993 December 12, Jim Sheridan, Terry George, In the Name of the Father, spoken by Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Universal Pictures

2. transitiveTo be derived from.

   Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

   2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4, page 264

3. transitiveslightly informalTo 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.

   Antonyms: drive at, get at