Definition of shard Shard

/ʃɑˈɹd/ - [shard] - shard

We found 17 definitions of shard from 5 different sources.

What does shard mean?

Noun Plural: shards
shard - a broken piece of a brittle artifact
		sherd, fragment
		piece a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"

= synonym
= antonym
= related word

shard (Noun)
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
shard (Noun)
A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
shard (Noun)
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
shard (Noun)
An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
shard (Verb)
To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
shard (Verb)
To break something into shards.
shard (Verb)
To divide an MMORPG into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

shard (n.)
A plant; chard.
shard (n.)
A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
shard (n.)
The hard wing case of a beetle.
shard (n.)
A gap in a fence.
shard (n.)
A boundary; a division.

shard
shärd, n. dung. [Ety. dub.]
shard
shärd, n. (Spens.) a boundary, division: (obs.) the leaves of the artichoke whitened. [Perh. from Ice. skardh (Ger. scharte, a notch), and ult. conn. with A.S. sceran, to divide.]
shard
shärd, n. a fragment, as of an earthen vessel: the wing-case of a beetle.—adjs. Shard′-borne (Shak.), borne on shards, as beetles; Shar′ded (Shak.), provided with elytra or wing-cases. [A.S. sceard, a fragment—sceran, to divide.]

🔤

Very rare

Rare

Normal

Common

Very Common

Rare

Normal

Common

shard in sign language