BEYOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beyond mean? 

• BEYOND (adverb)
  The adverb BEYOND has 3 senses:

1. farther along in space or time or degree

2. on the farther side from the observer

3. in addition

  Familiarity information: BEYOND used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEYOND (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Farther along in space or time or degree

Context example:

will be influential in the 1990s and beyond

Sense 2

Meaning:

On the farther side from the observer

Context example:

a pond with a hayfield beyond

Sense 3

Meaning:

In addition

Context example:

agreed to provide essentials but nothing beyond

 Context examples 

He led us through the passage and out into a dark hall beyond.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When white man's trouble and Siwash trouble come together and make a trouble, it is a great trouble, beyond understanding and without end.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Beyond a doubt it was the Macedonia.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then she played to him—no longer at him—and probed him with music that sank to depths beyond her plumb-line.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Beyond his snuggling and the throwing of a crooning note into his love-growl, he had no way of expressing his love.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

How can you go on as if it was all settled and arranged, Peggotty, when I tell you over and over again, you cruel thing, that beyond the commonest civilities nothing has passed!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And I've succeeded beyond my hopes, for here you are, a steady, sensible businessman, doing heaps of good with your money, and laying up the blessings of the poor, instead of dollars.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At any rate it was only death and freedom beyond.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)