Definition of shards Shards
/ʃɑˈɹdz/ - [shardz] -
We found 3 definitions of shards from 2 different sources.
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What does shards mean?
Wiktionary 
- shards (Noun)
Plural of shard.
Part of speech
🔤- shards, noun, plural of shard.
WordNet
Wiktionary
- 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.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
Part of speech
🔤- shard, noun, singular of shards.
