shirt
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.
Example
“He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.”
Other meanings
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
A kind of
- garment
Kinds of shirt
- dress shirt
- hair shirt
- sport shirt
- tank top
- work-shirt
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "sċyrte" (a short garment; skirt; kirtle).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shirt” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.