Postcard
noun
A small card sent by mail without an envelope, typically with a picture on one side and a place to write a short message on the other.
He sent a postcard from Greece to show us the beautiful scenery.
Often appears as...
- send a postcard
- receive a postcard
noun
A printed card with space for a message and address on one side and a photograph or picture on the other, sent without an envelope.
She collects postcards from every city she visits.
Often appears as...
- collect postcards
- picture postcard
noun
A small card sent by mail without an envelope, typically with a picture on one side and a place to write a short message on the other.
He sent a postcard from Greece to show us the beautiful scenery.
Often appears as...
- send a postcard
- receive a postcard
noun
A printed card with space for a message and address on one side and a photograph or picture on the other, sent without an envelope.
She collects postcards from every city she visits.
Often appears as...
- collect postcards
- picture postcard
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Vacation Souvenir
Postcards often act as souvenirs from travels, showcasing landmarks or cultural elements.
I picked up a postcard of the Eiffel Tower for you in Paris!
Pro Tip 2/3Friendly Gesture
Sending postcards can be a way to share experiences with friends and family in a personal way.
Getting your postcard made my day; it's nice to know you're thinking of me.
Pro Tip 3/3Collectible Item
Many people enjoy collecting postcards for their aesthetic or historical value.
I have a postcard collection from all the states I've visited.
Pro Tip 1/3Vacation Souvenir
Postcards often act as souvenirs from travels, showcasing landmarks or cultural elements.
I picked up a postcard of the Eiffel Tower for you in Paris!
Pro Tip 2/3Friendly Gesture
Sending postcards can be a way to share experiences with friends and family in a personal way.
Getting your postcard made my day; it's nice to know you're thinking of me.
Pro Tip 3/3Collectible Item
Many people enjoy collecting postcards for their aesthetic or historical value.
I have a postcard collection from all the states I've visited.
Pro Tip 1/3Vacation Souvenir
Postcards often act as souvenirs from travels, showcasing landmarks or cultural elements.
I picked up a postcard of the Eiffel Tower for you in Paris!
Pro Tip 2/3Friendly Gesture
Sending postcards can be a way to share experiences with friends and family in a personal way.
Getting your postcard made my day; it's nice to know you're thinking of me.
Pro Tip 3/3Collectible Item
Many people enjoy collecting postcards for their aesthetic or historical value.
I have a postcard collection from all the states I've visited.
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Bubbli: An app that...
and I is this chance to put the power of creating these levels in the hands of everyone so when everyone gets involved people start to communicate using these bubbles so if you think for a moment about post cards postcards or physical tokens of appreciation that say hey wish you were here with bubbles here takes on
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Building the Seed...
world is that you you have your tower and you squeeze a few trees around the edge and you'd see cars parked it's actually only the first couple of flaws that you really experience and the rest is just for postcards the lowest value is actually the bottom part of a tower
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Rives: The Museum of...
and by May, she had graduated and became my one that got away. But her mix tape did not get away. I have kept this mix tape in a box with notes and postcards, not just from L.D., from my life, but for decades. It's the kind of box where,
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Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...
and sent postcards to loved ones. I looked at the clouds, and I did what is hardest of all for me to do usually, which is nothing at all. And I started to go back to this place, and I noticed that I was doing my most important work there
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A lyrical bridge between...
But you either bring a letter or you write one there, and you burn it. And of course we know intuitively what is on those letters and postcards. It's a form of affection and love that is now no longer extant, yeah? And then the third
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Go Behind The Scenes...
seen real life has a lot of people with cellphones scrambling for the right position to get the right moment of the Sun reflecting in the in the water lily pond I think you can take this stock photo postcard moment that you have
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A Darwinian theory of...
all over the world tend to like a particular kind of landscape, a landscape that just happens to be similar to the pleistocene savannas where we evolved. This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards,
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Half a million secrets PIPE...
is the most visited advertisement-free blog in the world. And this is my postcard collection today. You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.
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How to connect with...
We joked that her suicide would have made a way better postcard. We talked shop. She allowed me to be deeply depressed and have a genuine connection to another person, simultaneously. For the first time,
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
makes them part of its flesh and blood. And often it does something more. It treats these maternal contributions as information, as what I like to call biological postcards from the world outside.
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Bubbli: An app that...
and I is this chance to put the power of creating these levels in the hands of everyone so when everyone gets involved people start to communicate using these bubbles so if you think for a moment about post cards postcards or physical tokens of appreciation that say hey wish you were here with bubbles here takes on
Video examples
Building the Seed...
world is that you you have your tower and you squeeze a few trees around the edge and you'd see cars parked it's actually only the first couple of flaws that you really experience and the rest is just for postcards the lowest value is actually the bottom part of a tower
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Rives: The Museum of...
and by May, she had graduated and became my one that got away. But her mix tape did not get away. I have kept this mix tape in a box with notes and postcards, not just from L.D., from my life, but for decades. It's the kind of box where,
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Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...
and sent postcards to loved ones. I looked at the clouds, and I did what is hardest of all for me to do usually, which is nothing at all. And I started to go back to this place, and I noticed that I was doing my most important work there
Video examples
A lyrical bridge between...
But you either bring a letter or you write one there, and you burn it. And of course we know intuitively what is on those letters and postcards. It's a form of affection and love that is now no longer extant, yeah? And then the third
Video examples
Go Behind The Scenes...
seen real life has a lot of people with cellphones scrambling for the right position to get the right moment of the Sun reflecting in the in the water lily pond I think you can take this stock photo postcard moment that you have
Video examples
A Darwinian theory of...
all over the world tend to like a particular kind of landscape, a landscape that just happens to be similar to the pleistocene savannas where we evolved. This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards,
Video examples
Half a million secrets PIPE...
is the most visited advertisement-free blog in the world. And this is my postcard collection today. You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.
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How to connect with...
We joked that her suicide would have made a way better postcard. We talked shop. She allowed me to be deeply depressed and have a genuine connection to another person, simultaneously. For the first time,
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
makes them part of its flesh and blood. And often it does something more. It treats these maternal contributions as information, as what I like to call biological postcards from the world outside.
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John Banville
Irish Novelist
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.
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Ruzwana Bashir
British Businesswoman
Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.
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Isabel Allende
Chilean Writer
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
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Carolyn Kizer
American Poet
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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Judith Martin
American Author
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
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Jeff Goodell
American Author
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
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Jane Levy
American Actress
I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!
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Angela Watson
American Actress
My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.
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Sarah McLachlan
Canadian Musician
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.
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John Banville
Irish Novelist
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.
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Ruzwana Bashir
British Businesswoman
Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.
Quote examples
Isabel Allende
Chilean Writer
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
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Carolyn Kizer
American Poet
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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Judith Martin
American Author
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
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Jeff Goodell
American Author
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
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Jane Levy
American Actress
I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!
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Angela Watson
American Actress
My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.
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Sarah McLachlan
Canadian Musician
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.
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