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tarot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtæ.ɹɔt/ (New-Zealand, rare)
  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˈtæ.ɹəʊ/ (UK)
  • /ˈtæ.ɹoʊ/ (US)
  • /ˈtɛ(ə).ɹoʊ/ Mary–marry–merry merger

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

Meanings

  1. (countable, plural, singular, uncountable) A card game played in various different variations.
    • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed. […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
    • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]
    • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot. As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Forms

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tarots Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

tarot card · tarotology · tarotic · tarosophy · tarotologist · tarotist

Relateds

cartomancy

Translations (42)

ka ტარო (card game) · cmn 意大利紙牌 /意大利纸牌 (card game) · de Tarotkarte (individual card) · sh тарот (card game) · ja タロットカード (individual card) · el ταρό (individual card) · pl tarot (card game) · fi tarot (card game) · tr tarot (card game) · sh tarot (card game) · ko 타로 (card game) · hu tarotkártya (individual card) · fi tarokki (card game) · cmn 塔羅卡 /塔罗卡 (individual card) · fa تاروت (card game) · cmn 塔羅牌 /塔罗牌 (card game) · ca tarot (card game) · ja タロット (individual card) · el ταρό (card game) · cmn 塔羅 /塔罗 (card game) · eo tarokoj (card game) · cmn 塔羅牌 /塔罗牌 (individual card) · ru ка́рта таро́ (individual card) · it tarocco (card game) · fa تارو (card game) · pl tarok (card game) · ru таро́ (individual card) · cs taroky (card game) · hu tarot (card game) · fr carte de tarot (individual card) · fr tarot (card game) · da tarot (card game) · fi tarot-kortti (individual card) · bg таро (card game) · hi टैरो (card game) · ja タロット (card game) · ru таро́ (card game) · pt tarô (card game) · fur taroc (card game) · eo taroko (individual card) · de Tarot (card game) · fr tarot (individual card)