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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beyond/bɪˈjɒnd/
preposition & adverb
  • 1 at or to the further side of.

    ■ more extensive or extreme than.

  • 2 happening or continuing after.
  • 3 having reached or progressed further than (a specified level or amount).
  • 4 to or in a degree where a specified action is impossible.

    ■ too advanced for.

  • 5 apart from; except.
noun (the beyond) the unknown, especially in references to life after death.
– origin OE begeondan, from be ‘by’ + geondan, of Gmc origin.



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