Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- prep. On the far side of; past: Just beyond the fence.
- prep. Later than; after: beyond midnight.
- prep. To a degree that is past the understanding, reach, or scope of: an evil beyond remedy.
- prep. To a degree or amount greater than: rich beyond his wildest dreams.
- prep. In addition to: asked for nothing beyond peace and quiet.
- adv. Farther along or away.
- adv. In addition; more: wanted her share but nothing beyond.
- n. That which is past or to a degree greater than knowledge or experience; the unknown: "Sputnik, the first satellite to enter the great beyond of space” ( Dale Russakoff).
- n. The world beyond death; the hereafter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- On or to the other side of: as, beyond the river; beyond the horizon; “beyond that flaming hill,”
- Further on than; more distant than: as, a mile beyond the river; a hundred miles beyond Omaha; he never could get beyond simple equations.
- Past in time; later than: as, a day beyond the proper time.
- At a place or time not yet reached by; before; ahead or in advance of.
- Out of reach of; outside of the capacity, limits, or sphere of; past: as, beyond our power; beyond comprehension; that is beyond me.
- Above; superior to; in or to a degree which rivals, exceeds, or surpasses, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind.
- More than; in excess of; over and above.
- At a distance; yonder.
- n. That place or state which lies on the other side; an experience or life beyond our present life or experience: as, the great beyond.
Wiktionary
- prep. Further away than.
- prep. On the far side of.
- prep. Later than; after.
- prep. Greater than.
- prep. In addition to.
- prep. past, or out of reach of
- adv. Farther along or away.
- adv. In addition; more.
- n. The unknown.
- n. The hereafter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- prep. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
- prep. At a place or time not yet reached; before.
- prep. Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than.
- prep. In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind.
- adv. Further away; at a distance; yonder.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. on the farther side from the observer
- adv. farther along in space or time or degree
- adv. in addition
Etymologies
- Old English beġeondan (Wiktionary)
- Middle English biyonde, from Old English begeondan : be, by; see by1 + geondan, on the far side of; see i- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And in the clause 'having passed beyond that bridge' the _passing beyond_ means”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“a new power! we feel a vague sympathy with _that_ unknown region which spreads beyond this great net, -- _that limitless beyond_ hath a mystic affinity with a part of our own frame; we unconsciously extend our wings (for the soul to us is as the wings to the fly!); we attempt to rise, -- to soar above this perilous snare, from which we are unable to crawl.”
“The event has long been cast by opponents of President Hamid Karzai as the first step in his attempts to increase his power and perhaps extend his term beyond 2014.”
“The historian Thomas Carlyle in 1839 was the first to extend the term beyond India by decrying “the Glasgow Thugs,” and he also coined thuggery.”
“During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther broadened the term beyond ministry to include work that serves others, but still couched it in a religious framework.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Stedman: Do Only Religious People Have A 'Calling'?
“When Preval announced that he might extend his term beyond February 2011, opponents marched to the palace.”
The Huffington Post: Haiti Suffers Year Of Crisis With Nobody In Charge
“We thought this is a great concept and that indeed only the dead woman should have a name as she "earned" it while the others have quite a way to go to "deserve" a name beyond their title.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Lybarger: Home in Exile: An Interview With Eran Riklis
“Critics say the president's objection is mainly based on his desire to extend his term beyond August 2011.”
“Helprin thinks to the contrary, for his purpose in extending the term beyond life plus 70 years is to benefit his grandchildren.”
Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
“We need to reframe and reclaim sustainability to take the term beyond "green" and make it relevant to the work businesspeople do every day.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beyond’.
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.co...ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 136 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...deserve, deserve better, destiny, determination, determine, determine the wil..., dialogue, differentiation, difficult question, disappointments, diverse, diversity and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Words beginning with B
birefringence, bureau, blot, barter, beyond, blunder, byre, byrgius, bowl, baste, bastardsawed, bastel house and 44 more...
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Sardanapalian
sardanapalian, villain, breathe, legion, melt, death, juliet, dying, endless, breathtaking, devil, vis-à-vis and 13 more...
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Words That Sell Snake Oil
Trying to sell an overpriced e-book that will communicate the true secrets of wealth, power, or yard-care? Here are some helpful words to sprinkle in your copy.
sensational, expertise, secrets, guaranteed, success, legitimate, conclusive, amazing, smart, free, easy, automatic and 18 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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Belistful
Tubey or not tubey.
belittle, bedazzle, besiege, besmirch, bespeckle, beget, bemoan, befuddle, befriend, become, besot, becloud and 596 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for beyond.

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