Tarot

//ˈtæɹoʊ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A card game played in various different variations. countable, plural, singular, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    any of a set of (usually 78) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used for playing card games and for divination by fortunetellers wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. countable, uncountable

Etymology

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

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