shorts

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ʃɔː(ɹ)ts/, SAMPA: /sO:(r)ts/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)ts

Noun

shorts (uncountable)

1. Plural form of short.
2. Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.

   Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts.

Derived terms

• boardshorts
• swimshorts

Translations

plural of short

pants worn primarily in the summer that does not go lower than the knees

Bulgarian: шорти (bg) (šórti) pl., гащета (bg) (gaštéta) pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 短褲 (cmn), 短裤 (cmn) (duǎnkù) Croatian: šorc (hr) m. Estonian: šortsid (et) Finnish: shortsit German: Shorts (de) pl. Greek: σορτς (el) (sorts) n., σορτσάκι (el) (sortsaki) n., παντελονάκι (el) (pantelonaki) n.

Hungarian: rövidnadrág (hu), sort (hu) Japanese: ショートパンツ (ja) (shōtopantsu) Macedonian: куси панталони (mk) (kúsi pantáloni) f. pl., шорц (mk) (šorc) m. Maltese: xorzz (mt) m. Manx: troosyn giarey (gv) m. pl. Russian: шорты (ru) (šórty) pl. Turkish: şort (tr)

Anagrams

• horsts

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French

Noun

shorts

1. Plural form of short.

   Est-ce qu'il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock?

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Norwegian

Noun

shorts m.

1. trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees.

Inflection

    Inflection of shorts

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	shorts	shortsen	shortser	shortsene
Nynorsk m	shorts	shortsen	shortsar	shortsane
Nynorsk m	shorts	shortsen	shorts	shorts

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Swedish

Noun

shorts (plurale tantum)

1. trousers with short legs. Does generally not reach to the knees.