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# postcard

«postcard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a card, often with a picture on one side, that you write…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a postcard, postcards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A postcard is a card, often with a picture on one side, that you write a short message on and send by post without an envelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#m1)

2) A postcard can be any small picture card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life people send postcards from holidays to family and friends. In English lessons pupils write a postcard: a short message, a greeting and the address. In maths, postcards are counted and priced: 3 postcards at 50p each cost £1.50.

### examples

- We sent Nan a postcard from the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#x1)
- The postcard had a picture of a koala. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#x2)
- Write a postcard telling a friend about your holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#x3)
- Postcards cost 80 cents each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#x4)
- I keep my postcards on the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#x5)
- Wish you were here! Love, Sam (on a postcard) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/#x6)

### note

Written as one word. Countable. Short messages, so postcards are usually informal and written in note style.

### In the corpora

- [Léa's postcard - "Je suis à Nice avec ma famille.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «postcard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postcard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.