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cartão postal

Portuguese, noun

cartão postal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of cartão-postal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, cartão-postal is a different word: “postcard (picture sent over the mail without an envelope)”.

What does cartão postal mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealternative spelling of cartão-postal

noun

as cartão-postal
  1. 1

    masculinepostcard (picture sent over the mail without an envelope)

  2. 2

    masculineshowplace; landmark; hallmark (an iconic place, monument or feature)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. pequeno retângulo de papelão fino, com a intenção de circular pelo Correio sem envelope, tendo uma das faces destinada ao endereço do destinatário, postagem do selo, mensagem do remetente e na outra alguma figura

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cartão postal

  • cartões-postais plural
  • cartão postal alternative
  • cartões postais plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to cartão postal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.