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come from

To have as one's birthplace or nationality.
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Most tourists in Mallorca come from England.   My girlfriend comes from Sweden, but is black because her parents are Swedish.

Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'come from':

come fromTo be derived from.
come fromTo derive one's opinion or argument from; to take as a conceptual starting point.
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