beyond vs less

beyond

adv
  • In addition; more. 

  • Farther along or away. 

  • extremely, more than 

prep
  • Later than; after. 

  • Further away than. 

  • Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass. 

  • In addition to; supplementing. 

  • Past, or out of reach of. 

  • On the far side of. 

  • Not within the comprehension of. 

noun
  • Something that is far beyond. 

  • The unknown. 

  • The hereafter. 

less

adv
  • To a smaller extent or degree. 

  • Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs. 

conj
  • unless 

noun
  • A smaller amount or quantity. 

prep
  • Minus; not including 

det
  • Fewer; a smaller number of. 

  • A smaller amount of; not as much. 

How often have the words beyond and less occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )