- piece
- noun1)
a piece of cheese
a piece of wood
Syn:bit, slice, chunk, segment, section, lump, hunk, wedge, slab, block, cake, bar, cube, stick, length; offcut, sample, fragment, sliver, splinter, wafer, chip, crumb, scrap, remnant, shred, shard, snippet; mouthful, morselSee note at fragment2)the pieces of a clock
Syn:component, part, bit, section, segment, constituent, element; unit, module3)a piece of furniture
Syn:item, article, specimen4)a piece of the profit
Syn:share, portion, slice, quota, part, bit, percentage, amount, quantity, ration, fraction, division; informal cut5)pieces from his private collection
Syn:work (of art), creation, production; composition, opus6)the reporter who wrote the piece
Syn:article, item, story, report, essay, study, review, composition, column7)the pieces on a game board
Syn:token, counter, man, disk, chip, marker•
Thesaurus of popular words. 2014.