American vs from

American

adj
  • Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas. 

  • Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture. 

  • Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry. 

  • Of, from, or pertaining to British North America. 

noun
  • A citizen or inhabitant of British North America. 

  • The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America. 

  • A citizen or inhabitant of the United States of America. 

  • Any inhabitant of the Americas. 

  • American cheese. 

from

prep
  • Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations. 

  • Indicating a starting point in time. 

  • Used to indicate source or provenance. 

  • Originating at (a year, time, etc.) 

  • With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point. 

  • Indicating removal or separation. 

  • Indicating exclusion. 

  • Produced with or out of (a substance or material). 

  • Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of. 

  • Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference. 

  • Denoting a subtraction operation. 

  • Indicating a starting point on a range or scale. 

  • Indicating differentiation. 

  • Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being 

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