t-shirt
/ˈtiːʃɜːt//ˈtiːʃɚt/
t-shirt noun: letter case form of T-shirt.
Noun (1)
t-shirt (plural t-shirts)
- Letter case form of T-shirt.
Noun (2) capitalized: T-shirt
T-shirt (plural T-shirts)
- A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.
- Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets.
- 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...2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- Synonyms:
- tee
- An undershirt.
t-shirt meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali
t-shirt in Hindi
- T-shirt
- टी-शर्ट ṭī-śarṭ
t-shirt in Tamil
- கொசுவச் சட்டை
t-shirt in Bengali
- T-shirt
- টি-শার্ট ṭi-śarṭ
Synonyms of t-shirt
Forms of t-shirt
| plural | t-shirts |
|---|---|
| plural | T-shirts |
| alternative form | t-shirt |
| alternative form | tee shirt |
| alternative form | tee-shirt |
| alternative form | teeshirt |
| alternative form | tshirt |
Origin of t-shirt
From its shape, 1920s.
Words formed from t-shirt
Phrases with t-shirt
Questions about t-shirt
- What does t-shirt mean?
- T-shirt means letter case form of T-shirt.
- What is t-shirt in Hindi?
- T-shirt in Hindi is टी-शर्ट (ṭī-śarṭ). See T-shirt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is t-shirt?
- T-shirt is a noun.
- How do you pronounce t-shirt?
- T-shirt is pronounced /ˈtiːʃɜːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of t-shirt?
- The plural of t-shirt is t-shirts.
Words near t-shirt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: t-shirt (page history and authors); T-shirt (page history and authors); टी-शर्ट (Hindi) (page history and authors); T-Shirt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); টি-শার্ট (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-t-shirt.wav, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-T-shirt.wav.
Cite this entry: “t-shirt.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/t-shirt. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.