Word.ws English Dictionary

from the top

from the top prepositional phrase: from the beginning.

Prepositional phrase

  1. From the beginning.
    • take it from the top
  2. From the highest-ranking individual in an organization.
    • These orders come from the top.

Words formed from from the top

Questions about from the top

What does from the top mean?
From the top means from the beginning.
What part of speech is from the top?
From the top is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from the top in the dictionary

  1. from the outset
  2. from the river to the sea
  3. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free
  4. from the rooter to the tooter
  5. from the start
  6. from the top
  7. from the womb to the tomb
  8. from the word go
  9. from then on
  10. from this moment on
  11. from this time on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: from the top (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “from the top.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/from_the_top. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.