Fragment Definition

frăgmənt
fragmented, fragmenting, fragments
noun
fragments
A part broken away from a whole; broken piece.
Webster's New World
A detached, isolated, or incomplete part.
A fragment of a song.
Webster's New World
An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit.
Overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript.
American Heritage
The part that exists of a literary or other work left unfinished.
Webster's New World
A sentence fragment.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
verb
fragmented, fragmenting, fragments
To break into fragments; break up.
Webster's New World
To become broken into fragments.
After the election, the coalition fragmented.
American Heritage
Antonyms:

Other Word Forms of Fragment

Noun

Singular:
fragment
Plural:
fragments

Origin of Fragment

  • From French, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frangō (“I break”). See also fraction.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin fragmentum from frangere frag- to break bhreg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to fragment using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

Words Ending With

Unscrambles

fragment