T-shirt
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English
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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]- → 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
[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]- 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
[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 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
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
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