English / word
shard
noun C1MEANING IN ENGLISH
A broken piece of ceramic, metal, glass, or rock with sharp edges.
In context
01
Sharp shards of glass littered the pavement after the car window shattered.
02
He cut his finger on a shard of glass.
Synonyms
fragment,piece,splinter
Antonyms
whole,unity,entirety
Collocations
shard of glass,shard of pottery,broken shard