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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

破片

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hahen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fragment/ˈfræɡ.mənt/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"ガラスの破片が床に散らばっていた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small part broken or separated off something.

    "Archaeologists carefully pieced together the pottery fragments found at the site."
As verb
  1. 1

    To break or cause to break into small parts or pieces.

    "Rapid industrialization began to fragment the traditional social structure."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'fragmentum', meaning a piece broken off, which comes from the verb 'frangere' (to break). Entering Middle English in the 15th century, the term originally referred to physical remnants or broken objects before expanding metaphorically to include incomplete texts, thoughts, and abstract systems.

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