Definition of Post card

1. Noun. A card for sending messages by post without an envelope.

Exact synonyms: Mailing-card, Postal Card, Postcard
Generic synonyms: Card
Specialized synonyms: Lettercard, Picture Postcard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Post Card

post-partum
post-processing
post-production
post-punk
post-rock
post-romantic
post-rotational nystagmus
post-structuralism
post-translational
post-traumatic
post-traumatic stress disorder
post-war
post and lintel
post box
post boxes
post card (current term)
post chaise
post count
post doc
post exchange
post festum
post game
post games
post haste
post hoc
post hoc ergo propter hoc
post hocs
post hole
post horn
post horns

Literary usage of Post card

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

1. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1918)
"ALBERT EARLEY, N. Plainfield, NJ SUGGESTIONS FOR DISPLAYING post card VIEWS THE article by Sayrs A. Garlick in the November, 1916, issue of the Journal of ..."

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 (1908)
"THE WORLD post card COMPANY, of Philadelphia, has removed to 45 North Ninth Street, where it will have twice as much room as at its old place. WG MAC. ..."

3. Leaves of a Life: Being the Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams, Percy Lefroy, George Henry Lamson (1890)
"Experts in handwriting—Sir FW Truscott charged with libel— The prosecutor's statement—The post-card—Evidence of Chabot and ..."

4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... post card, or any part thereof, which may be again transmitted through the post without further payment, shall be deemed ..."

5. Public School Methods (1921)
"post card Album. Make leaves of tag board or other tough paper by folding ... Lay a post card on each leaf, to locate the slits that need to be cut to hold ..."

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