SHIRT BUTTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shirt button mean? 

• SHIRT BUTTON (noun)
  The noun SHIRT BUTTON has 1 sense:

1. a button on a shirt

  Familiarity information: SHIRT BUTTON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIRT BUTTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A button on a shirt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shirt button" is a kind of...):

button (a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes)

Holonyms ("shirt button" is a part of...):

shirt (a garment worn on the upper half of the body)

 Context examples 

With such means in his power he had a right to be listened to; and though Mrs. Norris could fidget about the room, and disturb everybody in quest of two needlefuls of thread or a second-hand shirt button, in the midst of her nephew's account of a shipwreck or an engagement, everybody else was attentive; and even Lady Bertram could not hear of such horrors unmoved, or without sometimes lifting her eyes from her work to say, Dear me! how disagreeable!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)