Meanings
nounChristmas card (plural Christmas cards)
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
Translations
Arabic بِطَاقَة عِيد اَلْمِيلَاد
- بِطَاقَة عِيد اَلْمِيلَاد (biṭāqat ʕīd al-mīlād)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
Catalan felicitació de Nadal, nadala
- felicitació de Nadalgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- nadalagreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Chinese Mandarin 聖誕卡 /圣诞卡
- 聖誕卡 /圣诞卡 (shèngdànkǎ)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
Danish julekort
- julekortgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Dutch kerstkaart
- kerstkaartgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Finnish joulukortti
- joulukorttigreeting card that celebrates Christmas
French carte de Noël
- carte de Noëlgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
German Weihnachtskarte
- Weihnachtskartegreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Greek χριστουγεννιάτικη κάρτα
- χριστουγεννιάτικη κάρτα (christougenniátiki kárta)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
Hungarian karácsonyi képeslap, karácsonyi lap
- karácsonyi képeslapgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- karácsonyi lapgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Icelandic jólakort
- jólakortgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Indonesian kartu Natal
- kartu Natalgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Irish cárta Nollag
- cárta Nollaggreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Japanese クリスマスカード
- クリスマスカード (kurisumasukādo)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
Korean 크리스마스 카드
- 크리스마스 카드 (keuriseumaseu kadeu)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
Norwegian Bokmål julekort
- julekortgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Polish kartka świąteczna
- kartka świątecznagreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Portuguese cartão de Natal
- cartão de Natalgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Russian рожде́ственская откры́тка, нового́дняя откры́тка
- рожде́ственская откры́тка (roždéstvenskaja otkrýtka)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
- нового́дняя откры́тка (novogódnjaja otkrýtka)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
Spanish tarjeta navideña, christmas (kristmas)
- tarjeta navideñagreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- christmas (kristmas)greeting card that celebrates Christmas
- tarjeta de Navidadgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Swedish julkort
- julkortgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Tagalog kartang pamasko
- kartang pamaskogreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Turkish noel kartı, yılbaşı kartı
- noel kartıgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- yılbaşı kartıgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Vietnamese thiếp mừng Nô-en, thiếp Nô-en
- thiếp mừng Nô-engreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- thiếp Nô-engreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- thiếp Giáng sinhgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
- thiếp mừng Giáng sinhgreeting card that celebrates Christmas
Cite this entry
APA
Christmas card. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Christmas%20card
MLA
“Christmas card.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Christmas%20card. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Christmas card,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Christmas%20card.
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