Definition of Greeting card

1. Noun. A card sent to express personal greetings.

Generic synonyms: Card
Specialized synonyms: Birthday Card, Christmas Card, Easter Card, Valentine

Definition of Greeting card

1. Noun. A card, typically folded in half and available commercially, that is sent to someone as a greeting. (translation only) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greeting Card

grees
greese
greeses
greesing
greesings
greet
greete
greeted
greeter
greeters
greetes
greetest
greeteth
greetin'
greeting
greeting card (current term)
greetings
greetings card
greets
greetz
greeve
greeze
greezes
greffier
greffiers
greffotome
gregal
gregale
gregales
gregaloid

Literary usage of Greeting card

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Where and how to Sell Manuscripts: A Directory for Writers by William Bloss McCourtie (1920)
"... Markets for Postcard, greeting card and Calendar Verses and Mottoes The general requirements of these publishers in the way of sentiments for postcards, ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"The greeting card manufacturer is left in no such uncertainty. He has a very direct check on the sales, as people read what they buy and buy what they like ..."

3. Island Song Lyrics Volume 2 by Larry W. Jones (2004)
"This First greeting card (01/01/2003) (#819) There's an old faded greeting card in my little cottage I adore Sweet are the memories that it brings back to ..."

4. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Erwin Trowbridge is the greeting card salesman who figured out a system of beating the races in "Three Men on a Horse." In "Banjo Eyes," an adaptation of ..."

5. Teaching Children to Be Literate: A Reflective Approach by Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Casale Manzo (1995)
"... objectives will be addressed in this activity) Reading reading and following directions; reading and evaluating greeting card messages Science forming, ..."

6. A Life of Books: The Story of D.W. Thorpe Pty. Ltd., 1921-1987 by Joyce Nicholson, Daniel Wrixon Thorpe (2000)
"When the newsagency was sold and a specialist greeting card shop replaced it in 1959, the shop became known as the largest greeting card store in Australia. ..."

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