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index cards

index cards is the plural of index card.

Meaning of index card

Noun

index card (plural index cards)

  1. A piece of heavy paper stock used to record information to be stored in a card index or to supply the copy (content) from which to generate a book index.
    • Near-synonym: notecard

Questions about index cards

What is index cards the plural of?
Index cards is the plural of index card.

Words near index cards in the dictionary

  1. indewed
  2. indewing
  3. indews
  4. index
  5. index card
  6. index cards
  7. index case
  8. index cases
  9. index digit
  10. index digits
  11. index finger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: index cards (page history and authors); index card (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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