What does "tarot" mean?
A card game played in various different variations.
Tarot
/ˈtæɹoʊ/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A card game played in various different variations.
- Grammar: tarot is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: card reading, contextualized, divination, divination cards.
- Useful contrasts: divination deck, gaming deck, nondivination use.
- Usage evidence: She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 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 Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. countable, uncountable
Synonyms
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Example
"She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "tarot"?
Common synonyms include: card reading, contextualized, divination, divination cards, divination deck, divinatory.
How do you use "tarot" in a sentence?
She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.
How do you pronounce "tarot"?
Pronounced /ˈtæɹoʊ/.
Etymology
Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.