Thesaurus:piece

Thesaurus

piece

English

Noun

Sense: a separated part of something

Synonyms

• bit    [⇒ thesaurus]
• chip
• chunk
• clip
• crumb
• crumbling
• cutting
• flake
• fleak (obsolete, dialect)
• fragment
• hunk
• lump
• mammock (obsolete)
• ort
• piece
• piecemeal
• portion
• scrap
• scraplet
• slice
• snead
• snippet
• steck (obsolete, dialect)

Hyponyms

Long, sharp and slender piece:

• shard
• sliver
• splinter

Numerous small pieces:

• shivereens (UK dialect, archaic)
• smithereens
• smithers

Non-physical piece:

• excerpt
• extract
• passage

Other piece(s):

• cotchel (dated)
• debris    [⇒ thesaurus]
• drop

Hypernyms

• part    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

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

Further reading

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