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To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
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To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
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To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
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come from; "The present name derives from an older form"
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come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
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