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Meanings of postcard in English

Portuguese
cartão-postal
Catalan
postal

A card for sending messages by post without an envelope.

cartão-postal
Usage of postcard in English
1
But the market for picture-postcard office properties in New York remains hot.
The Irish Times
2
The postcard-perfect scene fitted perfectly into the master plan of Brazil's government.
Reuters
3
She said her friend Mo had just written a postcard from London.
Independent.ie
4
A week later he also got a postcard on which was typed.
The new yorker
5
As a result, I sat up reading and then wrote this postcard.
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
6
Eve took the postcard back and read the text on the reverse.
Eve of darkness
7
Three weeks after Edward left he sent me a postcard from Thailand.
Lone Wolf
8
But first she shall confess about the postcard from the prison camp.
The Price of Things
9
It is picture-postcard weather on the day I visit Kilkee, Co Clare.
The Irish Times
10
Artists had to create their masterpieces on the back of a postcard.
BBC
11
These postcard images were a feature as we cycled between the farms.
The South African
12
Even with a few planned outages we did not receive postcard notification.
Independent.ie
13
It begins with a kind of one of those 19th century postcard.
The new yorker
14
The German countryside was green and friendly, like something from a postcard.
Red inferno: 1945
15
She brought out the postcard and the pen, offered them to Mallory.
Cold springs
16
Without telling Kobi, she sent in a postcard to sign him up.
The Guardian
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Translations for postcard
Catalan
postal
Postcard through the time
Postcard across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common