come from

British  

verb

1. to be or have been a resident or native (of)

   Ernst comes from Geneva

2. to originate from or derive from

   chocolate comes from the cacao tree

   the word filibuster comes from the Dutch word for pirate

3. informal the reasons for someone's behaviour, opinions, or comments

   I can understand where you're coming from

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come from Idioms  

1. See come out of .

2. Arrive from someone or somewhere, as in This package just came from Alice , or Where did these chairs come from? [c. 1300] Also see where one is coming from .

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Example Sentences

Revenue growth seems to have come from continued strength at clients like Apple, data centers, low-earth-orbit satellites and the acquisition of NXP’s micro-electro-mechanical systems sensor business, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

The findings, published in PNAS, come from a collaboration between experimental and theoretical physicists at Emory University.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Another, often less visible, pressure point on earnings can come from losses in hedging activities.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

A leak before Rosenior's final match at Brighton remarkably seemed to come from Cucurella's barber.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

There wasn’t even a message scrolling across the LCD sign behind the counter to indicate that the plane had arrived or where it’d come from.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Related Words

• arise
• derive from
• emanate
• flow
• hail from
• originate