Beyond: Definition and part of speech

Beyond

  1. adv. Further away; at a distance; yonder.
  2. prep. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
  3. prep. At a place or time not yet reached; before.
  4. prep. Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one’s strength.
  5. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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