Meaning & use

shard

noun·Academic

A sharp, broken piece of a hard brittle material such as glass, metal, or pottery.

See it in a sentence

He swept up the shards of glass after the window shattered.

A shard of pottery from the ancient vase was found buried in the soil.

A note on using this word

Shard is most often paired with glass, as in glass shards, but it can describe broken fragments of many brittle materials.

Words with a similar meaning

splinterfragment

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