DERIVE


Meaning of DERIVE in English

(~s, deriving, ~d)

1.

If you ~ something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them. (FORMAL)

Mr Ying is one of those happy people who ~ pleasure from helping others.

VERB: V n from n/-ing

2.

If you say that something such as a word or feeling ~s or is ~d from something else, you mean that it comes from that thing.

Anna’s strength is ~d from her parents and her sisters...

The word Easter ~s from Eostre, the pagan goddess of spring.

VERB: be V-ed from n, V from n

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