🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

स्मार्ट कार्ड

Pronunciation / Transliteration: smart kard

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Smartcard/ˈsmɑːt.kɑːd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
Full Thesaurus
🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यात्री मेट्रो में यात्रा करने के लिए स्मार्ट कार्ड का उपयोग करते हैं।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A pocket-sized plastic card with embedded integrated circuit chips that can process and store data, commonly used for financial transactions, identification, and public transit ticketing.

    "Passengers can tap their smartcard at the station gates to pay for their train fare seamlessly."
  2. 2

    A contactless integrated circuit card used for electronic cash payments or access control.

    "She loaded money onto her transit smartcard before boarding the bus."

Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum

Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

A compound word formed from 'smart', originating from Old Germanic and Middle English roots meaning causing sharp pain or clever, and 'card', derived from the Greek 'chartēs' via Old French. Coined in the late 20th century with the advent of microprocessor technology embedded into plastic cards to denote a card possessing computational or storage intelligence.

Quick Vocabulary Retention Check

Which of the following is the closest synonym for "Smartcard"?

10 Global Lexicons: How "Smartcard" is said worldwide

Click any language below to open its dedicated Language to English dictionary page with native script & transliteration

Thesaurus & Synonyms Graph

Explore Nuanced Synonyms for "Smartcard"

Discover exact matches, context-specific alternatives, and antonyms with intensity ratings in the VocabDictionary Thesaurus.

View "Smartcard" Synonym Map