T-shirt
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From its shape, 1920s.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtiːʃɜːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtiːʃɚt/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun edit
- A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.
- Synonym: tee
- Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets.
- 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
- (dated) An undershirt.
Derived terms edit
- been there, done that, bought the T-shirt
- concert T-shirt
- pocket T-shirt
- ringer T-shirt
- T-shirtable
- T-shirt bra
- T-shirt dress
- T-shirted
- wet t-shirt competition, wet t-shirt contest
Descendants edit
- → Gulf Arabic: تيشيرت (tīšērt)
- → Dutch: T-shirt
- → German: T-shirt
- → Danish: T-shirt
- → Norwegian Bokmål: T-shirt
- → Norwegian Bokmål: T-skjorte, T-trøye (calque)
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: T-skjorte (calque)
- → Swedish: T-shirt
- → Swedish: T-tröja (calque)
- → Turkish: tişört
Translations edit
type of shirt
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “T-shirt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
T-shirt n (plural T-shirts, diminutive T-shirtje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- Alternative spelling of tee-shirt
Further reading edit
- “T-shirt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
T-shirt m inan
- T-shirt (lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar)
- Synonym: koszulka
Declension edit
Declension of T-shirt
singular | plural | |
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nominative | T-shirt | T-shirty |
genitive | T-shirtu | T-shirtów |
dative | T-shirtowi | T-shirtom |
accusative | T-shirt | T-shirty |
instrumental | T-shirtem | T-shirtami |
locative | T-shircie | T-shirtach |
vocative | T-shircie | T-shirty |
Further reading edit
- T-shirt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish edit
Noun edit
T-shirt c
- Alternative letter-case form of t-shirt (“T-shirt”)
- Synonym: T-tröja
Declension edit
Declension of T-shirt | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | T-shirt | T-shirten | T-shirtar, T-shirts | T-shirtarna |
Genitive | T-shirts | T-shirtens | T-shirtars, T-shirts | T-shirtarnas |