apiece

English

Etymology

From Middle English a pece. By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ piece.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpiːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈpis/

• Audio (General American):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Adverb

apiece (not comparable)

1. Each by itself; for or to each one.

   Hyponym: per capita

   Near-synonyms: piecewise, piecemeal; individually, singly

   These melons cost a dollar apiece.

   • 1943 January and February, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: IV—H. A. Ivatt”, in Railway Magazine, page 30:

     The engines were built in the Doncaster works at what I believe to have been the low cost, even for those days, of £2,500 apiece, [...].

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening, induced them to bring forward their maps and charts, lop off a little here, add a bit there, and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements. He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.

2. (Maine) An undetermined distance.

Derived terms

• a horse apiece

Translations

apiece

• Bulgarian: поединично (bg) (poedinično), на парче (na parče)
• Catalan: respectivament (ca), cadascú (ca) m, cadascuna (ca) f
• Dutch: per stuk
• Esperanto: po (eo)
• Finnish: kappale (fi), kappaleelta
• French: chacun (fr) m, chacune (fr) f
• German: jedes einzelne n, je Stück, pro Stück
• Hungarian: darabonként (hu)
• Italian: ciascuno (it) m, ciascuna (it) f, cadauno m, cadauna f, cad. m or f by sense
• Portuguese: cada um, cada uma f
• Spanish: cada uno
• Turkish: birer (tr)

See also

• apart

References

• “apiece”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.