transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪjɒnd ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
They heard footsteps in the main room, beyond a door...
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Beyond is also an adverb.
The house had a fabulous view out to the Strait of Georgia and the Rockies beyond.
ADV : n ADV , and ADV
2.
If something happens beyond a particular time or date, it continues after that time or date has passed.
Few jockeys continue race-riding beyond the age of 40...
= past
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Beyond is also an adverb.
The financing of home ownership will continue through the 1990s and beyond.
ADV : and ADV
3.
If something extends beyond a particular thing, it affects or includes other things.
His interests extended beyond the fine arts to international politics and philosophy.
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4.
You use beyond to introduce an exception to what you are saying.
I knew nothing beyond a few random facts.
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5.
If something goes beyond a particular point or stage, it progresses or increases so that it passes that point or stage.
Their five-year relationship was strained beyond breaking point...
It seems to me he’s beyond caring about what anybody does.
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6.
If something is, for example, beyond understanding or beyond belief, it is so extreme in some way that it cannot be understood or believed.
What Jock had done was beyond my comprehension...
Sweden is lovely in summer–cold beyond belief in winter...
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7.
If you say that something is beyond someone, you mean that they cannot deal with it.
The situation was beyond her control.
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8.
beyond the pale: see pale
beyond someone’s means: see means
beyond your wildest dreams: see dream
beyond a joke: see joke