Usually means: Fragment of broken glass, pottery.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word shard:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shard: Merriam-Webster
  3. shard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shard, shar'd, shard: Wordnik
  8. shard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shard: Wiktionary
  10. shard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shard (sherd): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shard: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shard: Dictionary.com
  14. shard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Shard (comics), Shard (database), Shard (database architecture), Shard, The Shard, The shard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shard: Rhymezone
  19. Shard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shard: FreeDictionary.org
  22. shard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shard: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shard: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHARD: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shard: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
noun:  (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
noun:  A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
noun:  (online gaming) 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.
noun:  (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
noun:  (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
verb:  (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
verb:  (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
noun:  The plant chard.

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