1. above and beyond - Adverb
2. above and beyond - Phrase
above and beyond
Further than; doing more than is expected or required.
The hospital staff often go above and beyond what is required of them.
Putting in overtime with no pay is 'above and beyond the call of duty
above and beyond (not comparable)
Doing more than is expected or required.
Boy, they sure went above and beyond when they were planning this party!
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. Francis Ford Coppola
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert G. Ingersoll
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. Pat Riley
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. Pat Riley
Man's craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it. John Burroughs