Christmas card

See also: Christmascard

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

Christmas card (plural Christmas cards)

1. A greeting card that is decorated in a manner that celebrates Christmas.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     “ […] 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. […] ”

Related terms

• Christmas list
• Christmas season

 

Translations

greeting card that celebrates Christmas

• Arabic: بِطَاقَة عِيد اَلْمِيلَاد f (biṭāqat ʕīd al-mīlād)
• Catalan: felicitació de Nadal f, nadala (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖誕卡／圣诞卡 (zh) (shèngdànkǎ)

• Danish: julekort n
• Dutch: kerstkaart (nl)
• Faroese: jólakort n
• Finnish: joulukortti (fi)
• French: carte de Noël f
• Galician: tarxeta de nadal f
• German: Weihnachtskarte (de) f
• Greek: χριστουγεννιάτικη κάρτα f (christougenniátiki kárta)
• Hungarian: karácsonyi képeslap, karácsonyi lap
• Icelandic: jólakort (is)
• Indonesian: kartu Natal
• Irish: cárta Nollag m
• Japanese: クリスマスカード (ja) (kurisumasukādo)
• Korean: 크리스마스 카드 (keuriseumaseu kadeu)
• Maltese: kartolina tal-Milied f
• Norman: carte dé Noué f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: julekort n

  Nynorsk: julekort n, jolekort n

• Polish: kartka świąteczna f
• Portuguese: cartão de Natal m
• Russian: рожде́ственская откры́тка f (roždéstvenskaja otkrýtka), ("New Year card", common in Russia) нового́дняя откры́тка f (novogódnjaja otkrýtka)
• Spanish: tarjeta navideña f
• Swedish: julkort (sv) n
• Tagalog: kartang pamasko
• Turkish: noel kartı, yılbaşı kartı
• Vietnamese: thiếp mừng Nô-en, thiếp Nô-en, thiếp Giáng sinh, thiếp mừng Giáng sinh