Definition of a breed apart
:more special than others of the same kind
- Those athletes are a breed apart.
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breed
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: to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation
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: beget
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: produce, engender
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: a group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters
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: a number of persons of the same stock (see 1stock 5b(1))
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: class, kind
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apart
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: at a little distance
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: away from one another in space or time
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: as a separate unit : independently
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: separate, isolated
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: holding different opinions : divided
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