Christmas card

Christmas card noun: a greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.

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Noun

Christmas card (plural Christmas cards)

A greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.
- “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

greeting card that celebrates Christmas: بِطَاقَة عِيد اَلْمِيلَاد biṭāqat ʕīd al-mīlād

greeting card that celebrates Christmas: thiếp mừng Nô-en, thiếp Nô-en, thiếp Giáng sinh, thiếp mừng Giáng sinh

plural	Christmas cards

What does Christmas card mean?: Christmas card means a greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.
What is Christmas card in Tagalog?: Christmas card in Tagalog is kartang pamasko. See Christmas card meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is Christmas card?: Christmas card is a noun.
What is the plural of Christmas card?: The plural of Christmas card is Christmas cards.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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