T-shirt
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From its shape, 1920s.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtiːʃɜːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtiːʃɚt/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
- (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
Descendants
- → 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
type of shirt
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “T-shirt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈti.ʃərt/, [ˈti.ʃəɹt]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: T‧shirt
Noun
T-shirt n (plural T-shirts, diminutive T-shirtje n)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.ʃɛʁt/, /ti.ʃœʁt/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
- alternative spelling of tee-shirt
Further reading
- “T-shirt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English T-shirt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈti.ʂɛrt/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iʂɛrt
- Syllabification: T-‧shirt
Noun
T-shirt m inan
- T-shirt (lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar)
- Synonym: koszulka
Declension
Declension of T-shirt
Further reading
- T-shirt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
T-shirt c
Declension
| nominative | 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 |