apiece

English

Etymology

From Middle English a pece, equivalent to a +‎ piece.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːs

Adverb

apiece (not comparable)

1. Each by itself; for or to each one

   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, [...].

2. (Maine) An undetermined distance.

Translations

apiece

• Bulgarian: поединично (bg) (poedinično), на парче (na parče)
• Catalan: respectivament (ca), cadascú (ca) m, cadascuna (ca) f
• Dutch: per stuk
• 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
• Portuguese: cada um, cada uma f
• Spanish: cada uno
• Turkish: birer (tr)

References

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