postcard

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noun

post·​card ˈpōs(t)-ˌkärd How to pronounce postcard (audio)
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: a card on which a message may be written for mailing without an envelope and to which the sender must affix a stamp
postcardlike adjective

postcard

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adjective

: picturesque, picture-postcard
a postcard village

Examples of postcard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Domestic postcards will go up by 3 cents to 56 cents. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2024 Editors’ Picks Prized symbols of the city, the towers are ubiquitous: on postcards, souvenir magnets, even on gigantic chocolate Easter eggs that featured a drawing of them on a marzipan surface. Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 If no one else has encouraged you to write it down, this is your sign to grab a journal, a postcard, or some polaroid photos and make a note. Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2024 Maybe start with a funny postcard or greeting card. Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024 If approved, the plan, which was announced on Tuesday, will raise the price of metered 1-ounce letters to 69 cents, international ounce-size letters and postcards to $1.65 and domestic postcards to 56 cents. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024 The art will become an original image that will be reproduced as postcards for mailing in May 2025 as a part of Mental Health Month. Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2024 The National Voter Registration Act outlines specific processes for removing people from the rolls, which includes sending postcards to people to verify if their address has changed and waiting two presidential election cycles, or eight years, before removing them completely. Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024 Some secret-keepers described their postcard as liberating. Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
Adjective
Don’t get used to it June 21, 2023 Huntington Beach was abuzz Wednesday morning as the almost postcard Southern California day kicked off. Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023 Residents in the building can enjoy a resort-style pool on the ninth floor with postcard views of downtown. Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2022 The mixed-density project could be a postcard picture of what economists and planners say is needed to combat the nation’s housing shortage and sprawl. New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022 For a long time, everything still looks postcard-pretty. Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1869, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Adjective

1924, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of postcard was in 1869

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“Postcard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postcard. Accessed 2 May. 2024.

Kids Definition

postcard

noun
post·​card
ˈpōs(t)-ˌkärd
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: a card on which a message may be sent by mail without an envelope
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