postcard
postcard
Definition
post·card (-kärd′)
noun
- 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
- loosely a postal card
postcard
Synonyms
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.
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