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/bɪˈɑnd/ /bˌiˈɔnd/ /bɪˈɔnd/ Listen

preposition

Beyond prep.

On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. "Beyond that flaming hill."

At a place or time not yet reached; before. "A thing beyond us, even before our death."

Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.

In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." "Beyond any of the great men of my country."

Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea.

To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. "That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter."

adverb

Beyond adv. Further away; at a distance; yonder. "Lo, where beyond he lyeth languishing."

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Etymology of 'Beyond'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beyond" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hendrick, "if you could cast out into the stream beyond, but the line is too short for that, unless you could jump on to that big rock in the rapid, which is impossible with ...

— The Crew of the Water Wagtail • R.M. Ballantyne

... denoted by the formation and application of a word must have preceded the symbol that denotes it. A sign, however, is necessary to give stability to our intellectual progress—to establish each step in our advance as a new starting-point for our advance to another beyond. A country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realise our dominion over what we have already overrun in thought; to make every intellectual conquest ...

— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler

... brimming dykes, fringed with bare pollards, and the long sheets of water spread out across the lush meadows, threw back the fiery radiance of the sky from their gleaming surface. The tall poplars about the Dyke Inn stood out hard and clear in the ruddy light; beyond them the fen, stretched away to the flaming horizon gloomy and flat and desolate, with nothing higher than the stunted pollards ...

— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams

... express the most indecent ideas in conversation without the least emotion, and they delight in such conversation beyond any other. Chastity, indeed, is but little valued, especially among the middle people—if a Wife is found guilty of a breach of it her only punishment is a beating from her husband. The Men will very readily offer the Young Women ...

— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook

... view partial, parochial, not raised to the horizon; the moral feeling proper, at the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the assumption and the incivility of my countryfolk to their cousins from beyond the sea; I grill in my blood over the silly rudeness of our newspaper articles; and I do not know where to look when I find myself in company with an American and ...

— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson

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