shirtwaister

1. 1.

   a blouse with buttons down the front

   “in Britain they call a shirtwaist a shirtwaister”

   Synonymsshirtwaist

   Broaderblouse

Other forms of shirtwaister

plural

shirtwaisters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shirtwaister

What does shirtwaister mean?

shirtwaister means "a blouse with buttons down the front".

How many syllables are in shirtwaister?

shirtwaister has 3 syllables: shir-twai-ster. The stress falls on "shir".

What is another word for shirtwaister?

Close synonyms include shirtwaist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shirtwaister a common word?

shirtwaister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.