T-shirt

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See also: t-shirt and T-Shirt

English

A T-Shirt with the Wikipedia logo

Alternative forms

Etymology

From its shape, 1920s.

Pronunciation

Noun

T-shirt (plural T-shirts)

  1. 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.
  2. (dated) An undershirt.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “T-shirt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English T-shirt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.ʃərt/,
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: T‧shirt

Noun

T-shirt n (plural T-shirts, diminutive T-shirtje n)

  1. T-shirt

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English T-shirt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.ʃɛʁt/, /ti.ʃœʁt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio (Switzerland)(file)

Noun

T-shirt m (plural T-shirts)

  1. Alternative spelling of tee-shirt

Further reading

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English T-shirt.

Pronunciation

Noun

T-shirt m inan

  1. T-shirt (lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar)
    Synonym: koszulka

Declension

Declension 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

  • T-shirt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

T-shirt c

  1. Alternative letter-case form of t-shirt (“T-shirt”)
    Synonym: T-tröja

Declension

Declension of T-shirt 
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

References

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia