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piece
What does piece mean?
piece (noun): a separate part of a whole.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use piece in a sentence?
- An important piece of the evidence. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce piece?
/pis/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does piece come from?
From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pecia, petia (“broken piece, fragment; parcel of land”), of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “piece” mean?
a separate part of a whole
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the lower side of anything
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a spoken or written remark
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concentration of attention
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