visiting card
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.
Example Sentences
- "On the 19th of May we are a maiden castle no longer. Black coats and hats ring at the bell, and pass in and out of the different apartments. The hall table is sprinkled with letters, visiting-cards, and programmes which seem to have had the alphabet shaken out upon them, for they bear the names of professors, doctors, reverends, and very reverends, and fairly bristle with A. M.'s, M. A.'s, A. B.'s, D. D.'s, and LL. D.'s."