T-shirt
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom its shape, 1920s.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtiːʃɜːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtiːʃɚt/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
edit- (clothing) 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- → Cantonese: T恤 (ti1 seot1)
- → Danish: T-shirt
- → Dutch: T-shirt
- → German: T-shirt
- → Gulf Arabic: تيشيرت (tīšērt)
- → Japanese: Tシャツ (tī-shatsu)
- → Korean: 티셔츠 (tisyeocheu)
- → Mandarin: T恤 (tì xù)
- → 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
edittype of shirt
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References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “T-shirt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
editAnagrams
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editT-shirt n (plural T-shirts, diminutive T-shirtje n)
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ti.ʃɛʁt/, /ti.ʃœʁt/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editT-shirt m inan
- T-shirt (lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar)
- Synonym: koszulka
Declension
editDeclension of T-shirt
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
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
editNoun
editT-shirt c
- Alternative letter-case form of t-shirt (“T-shirt”)
- Synonym: T-tröja
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | T-shirt | T-shirts |
definite | T-shirten | T-shirtens | |
plural | indefinite | T-shirtar, T-shirts | T-shirtars, T-shirts |
definite | T-shirtarna | T-shirtarnas |
References
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