come from

Verb

come from (third-person singular simple present comes from, present participle coming from, simple past came from, past participle come from)

1. (transitive) To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
   • Most tourists in Mallorca come from England. My girlfriend comes from Sweden.
   • 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...
2. (transitive) To 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. (transitive, slightly informal) To 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