Thesaurus:piece

Thesaurus

piece

English

Noun

Sense: a separated part of something

Synonyms

• bit    [⇒ thesaurus]
• chip
• chunk
• crumb
• crumbling
• cutting
• fragment
• hunk
• lump
• mammock
• ort
• piece
• piecemeal
• portion
• scrap
• scraplet
• slice
• snead
• snippet
• steck

Hyponyms

• cotchel (dated)
• debris    [⇒ thesaurus]
• drop
• shard
• sliver
• splinter

Hypernyms

• part    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:asunder
• Thesaurus:broken
• Thesaurus:board game piece

Further reading

• “51. part” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “piece” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.