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postcard Definition

post·card (-kärd′)

noun

  1. a card, usually with a picture on one side, that may be sent through the mail when a stamp is affixed, used to send short messages
  2. loosely a postal card

postcard Synonyms

postcard

n.

postal card, note, letter card; see letter 2.

postcard Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • send: Send a Postcard You don't have to be on holiday to send a friend a postcard.
  • tint: A similar view published as a tinted postcard with divided back and postmarked 1904.
  • enclose: If you wish to be kept informed of any bids exceeding yours, enclose a postcard or SASE with your bid.
  • distribute: Our characters, around the Cluedo board distributed quality postcards to the target audience.
  • stamp: Some writers include a self-addressed stamped postcard for a reply.
  • buy: Or how about buying some postcards for your everyday use?

Adjective modifier

  • self-addressed: Receipt of applications will only be acknowledged if you supply a stamped self-addressed postcard.
  • saucy: Weston is typical of a British Victorian holiday center with piers, amusements, saucy postcards and donkeys giving children rides along the beach.
  • pre-printed: In addition, over 10,000 pre-printed postcards were received from customers of one large PEP provider.
  • undated: Above we see the station on an undated postcard from fields adjoining Pelham Lane.
  • photographic: Photographic postcard of St Tudno ( 3 ) on war service.
  • commemorative: On a first visit to Dublin I purchased some commemorative postcards of the 1916 Rebellion.

Modifies a noun

  • campaign: Send a postcard Order campaign postcards to send to your MP.
  • harbor: Sail from Skiathos where the white washed houses meander up the steep slopes of this picture postcard harbor town.
  • village: Set at the edge of the picture postcard village of Betws-y-Coed amidst the remarkable beauty of the National Park.

Noun used with modifier

  • seaside: Full of music hall, seaside postcard humor, this is smut at its best.
  • loans: The individual solution should be a web internet Loans postcards fast interest rate calculators for not good credit history or low income.
  • picture: Please consider sending me a picture postcard of the area where you live.
  • souvenir: This is typical of the souvenir postcards which were sold in large numbers to visitors.
  • propaganda: Propaganda postcards of the Great War WW1 postcard art.
postcard Quotes

From the [empty] carpet-bag she took out seven flannel night-gowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete.

—Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)