POSTAL CARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postal card mean? 

• POSTAL CARD (noun)
  The noun POSTAL CARD has 1 sense:

1. a card for sending messages by post without an envelope

  Familiarity information: POSTAL CARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTAL CARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card for sending messages by post without an envelope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

mailing-card; post card; postal card; postcard

Hypernyms ("postal card" is a kind of...):

card (a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "postal card"):

lettercard (a postcard that folds so the message is inside)

picture postcard (a postcard with a picture on one side)