Christmas card
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈkrɪs·məs kɑrd/
:
tarjeta de Navidad
- We exchange Christmas cards every year to keep in touch with friends and family.
- send Christmas cards
- get Christmas cards
- receive Christmas cards
Look at this new material, our new Christmas card.
- Look at this new material, our new Christmas card.
- He wants to feel proud to stand next to his family in their Christmas card photo.
- Jed, the guy who reviews every single one of these podcast episodes also sends Christmas cards.
- I got him a little card, little Christmas card, Mammy.
- I got his Christmas cards on the desk, his coffee cup half drunk.
- I yeah, That should be your Christmas card.
- If not from courses, from Christmas cards and stuff.
- I I was sat outside Costa got a Christmas card.
- And I, I to this day though, I, you know, I, we still exchange, you know, Christmas cards and stuff like that.
Examples
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I gave George this Christmas card yesterday when we were shooting podcasts here at this house and I walked in today and it was sitting in the same spot that it was yesterday.
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He sends me a Christmas card every year.
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My family still send me Christmas cards, Friends still send me Christmas cards.
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I have not written a single Christmas card yet this year.
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We exchange Christmas cards every year.
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In her letters and Christmas cards, my mother wrote for both of them.
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I mean, he always used to send Christmas cards and birthday cards and my mom would just send them back.
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But even though she continued to send Christmas cards every year, they never responded again.
Fiction book (1992) -
And then we're all taking some time today from the team to all individually write those people some Christmas cards, which is nice.
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One year, I enclosed a mini-CD with 15 slide shows in my Christmas card.
Academic text (2003)
How Festive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a greeting or decorative card associated with the Christmas holiday' is directly derivable from combining 'Christmas' (the holiday) with 'card' (a card). This noun–noun composition is a transparent modifier pattern found in many languages (e.g., Spanish 'tarjeta de Navidad'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Christmas card began in the 1800s when people started sending a small decorated card at Christmas to give friends a quick greeting. One popular story says a man paid an artist to make a picture and short message so he would not have to write many letters, and that's why a Christmas card today is a decorated card sent to say 'Merry Christmas' or 'season's greetings'.