“a world”

The following 5 entries include the term a world.

a world apart

idiom

: completely different

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a world apart from

idiom

: completely different from

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a world away from

idiom

: completely different from (something)

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a world of make-believe

noun phrase

: an unreal world : a state of believing things that are not true

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in a world of one's own

idiom

: spending so much time thinking about something that one does not notice what is happening

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