dress shirt

noun

A collared shirt with buttons worn as part of a formal, business or business casual outfit.

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button-downbutton-uppolowork shirtevening shirttuxedo shirt
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Meanings

noundress shirt (plural dress shirts)

plural dress shirts · alternative dress-shirt

  1. USA collared shirt with buttons worn as part of a formal, business or business casual outfit.

    Synonyms: button-down, button-up, polo, work shirt

  2. UKA formal, eveningwear shirt with buttons, often worn as part of a black tie or white tie dress code.

    First off, you certainly wouldn’t want to rock up to work sporting a dress shirt. Not unless you’re the Queen’s butler or one of those gents who holds the doors open at posh department stores. No, a dress shirt is to be worn exclusively as part of a black-tie outfit, most commonly a tuxedo.

    2024 July 30, “The Complete Guide To Men’s Dress Shirts”, in FashionBeans

    Synonyms: evening shirt, tuxedo shirt

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA collared shirt with buttons worn as part of a formal, business or business casual outfit.

Similar
button-downbutton-uppolowork shirt

nounA formal, eveningwear shirt with buttons, often worn as part of a black tie or white tie dress code.

Similar
evening shirttuxedo shirt

More synonyms by meaning

nouna man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo)

Similar
evening shirt
Broader
shirt
Also see
tuxedo shirt

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian ри́за
  • ри́за (ríza)collared shirt
Chinese Mandarin 襯衫 /衬衫
  • 襯衫 /衬衫 (chènshān)collared shirt
Danish skjorte
  • skjortecollared shirt
Dutch overhemd
  • overhemdcollared shirt
Esperanto ĉemizo
  • ĉemizocollared shirt
Finnish pukupaita, kauluspaita
  • pukupaitacollared shirt
  • kauluspaitacollared shirt
French chemise
  • chemisecollared shirt
German Hemd
  • Hemdcollared shirt
Indonesian kemeja
  • kemejacollared shirt
Japanese ワイシャツ
  • ワイシャツ (waishatsu)collared shirt
Korean 와이셔츠
  • 와이셔츠 (waisyeocheu)collared shirt
Polish koszula frakowa
  • koszula frakowacollared shirt
Portuguese camisa social
  • camisa socialcollared shirt
Russian руба́шка
  • руба́шка (rubáška)collared shirt
Swedish skjorta
  • skjortacollared shirt
Vietnamese sơ mi
  • sơ micollared shirt
Cite this entry
APA

dress shirt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dress%20shirt

MLA

“dress shirt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dress%20shirt. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dress shirt,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dress%20shirt.

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