calling card

1. 1.

   a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls

   Synonymsphone card

   Broadercredit card
2. 2.

   a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited

   Synonymsvisiting cardcard

   Broadergreeting
3. 3.

   a distinguishing characteristic or behavior

   “bombs are a terrorist's calling cards”

   Broaderpeculiarity

Questions about calling card

What does calling card mean?

calling card means "a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for calling card?

Close synonyms include phone card, visiting card, card. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calling card a common word?

calling card is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.