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picture postcard

picture postcard noun: a postcard bearing a picture.

Noun

picture postcard (plural picture postcards)

  1. A postcard bearing a picture.

Adjective

picture postcard

  1. (attributive, figuratively) Scenic, like the image on a postcard.
    • It was a picture-postcard summer day.
    • A place that's mostly sunny, but that isn't very picture postcard when your doctor has warned you never to go out with less than SP-30 sunblock.1991 May 4, Walta Borawksi, “A Sort of Homecoming”, in Gay Community News, page 9
    Synonyms:
    picturesque

Synonyms of picture postcard

Forms of picture postcard

pluralpicture postcards

Words formed from picture postcard

Questions about picture postcard

What does picture postcard mean?
Picture postcard means a postcard bearing a picture.
What part of speech is picture postcard?
Picture postcard can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of picture postcard?
The plural of picture postcard is picture postcards.

Words near picture postcard in the dictionary

  1. picture paper
  2. picture papers
  3. picture perfect
  4. picture plane
  5. picture planes
  6. picture postcard
  7. picture postcards
  8. picture rail
  9. picture rails
  10. picture rod
  11. picture rods

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