Noun Definition

piece

1.Definition: a distance

"It is down the road a piece"

Category: General

2.Definition: a musical work that has been created

Related Noun(s):composition, opus

Category: General

3.Definition: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition

"He was here for a little while", "I need to rest for a piece", "A spell of good weather", "A patch of bad weather"

Related Noun(s):patch, spell, while

Category: General

4.Definition: a portable gun

Related Noun(s):firearm

Category: Objects

5.Definition: a portion of a natural object

"They analyzed the river into three parts", "He needed a piece of granite"

Related Noun(s):part

Category: Objects

6.Definition: a separate part of a whole

"An important piece of the evidence"

Category: Objects

7.Definition: a share of something

Category: General

8.Definition: a work of art of some artistic value

"This store sells only objets d'art", "It is not known who created this piece"

Category: Objects

9.Definition: an artistic or literary composition

"He wrote an interesting piece on Iran", "The children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"

Category: General

10.Definition: an instance of some kind

"It was a nice piece of work", "He had a bit of good luck"

Related Noun(s):bit

Category: General

11.Definition: an item that is an instance of some type

"He designed a new piece of equipment", "She bought a lovely piece of china", "My dog swallowed a Lego part"

Related Noun(s):part

Category: Objects

12.Definition: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games

"He taught me to set up the men on the chess board", "He sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

Related Noun(s):man

Category: Objects