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[bee-ond, bih-yond]
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  2. farther on than; more distant than: beyond the horizon; beyond the sea.
  3. outside the understanding, limits, or reach of; past: beyond comprehension; beyond endurance; beyond help.
  4. superior to; surpassing; above: wise beyond all others.
  5. more than; in excess of; over and above: to stay beyond one's welcome.
  1. the beyond,
    1. that which is at a great distance.
    2. Also the great beyond.the afterlife; life after death.

Origin of beyond

before 1000; Middle English beyonden, Old English begeondan. See be-, yond (adv.)
Related formsbe·yond·ness, noun

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    Lydia Maria Child


  • Why, man, if we've been beyond the law up to this time, we can laugh at the law now.

  • Beyond the controlling power of money we have no vision, and we see no laws.

  • The physical facts couldn't be denied, and beyond the physical facts I could discern nothing.

British Dictionary definitions for beyond


  1. at or to a point on the other side of; at or to the further side ofbeyond those hills there is a river
  2. outside the limits or scope ofbeyond this country's jurisdiction
  1. at or to the other or far side of something
  2. outside the limits of something
  1. the beyond the unknown; the world outside the range of human perception, esp life after death in certain religious beliefs

Word Origin

Old English begeondan; see by, yonder

Word Origin and History for beyond



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