Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a set of usually 78 playing cards including 22 cards depicting vices, virtues, and elemental forces, used in fortunetelling.
- noun Any of these 22 pictorial cards used as trump in tarok.
- noun Tarok.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a pack of playing-cards first used in Italy in the fourteenth century, and so named from the design of plain or dotted lines crossing diagonally on the back of the cards.
- noun A game played with the above cards: often used in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game of cards; -- called also
taroc . - noun any of a set of 22 playing cards which bear allegorical images representing various objects or influences affecting human life, and widely used in fortunetelling; they are also used as trumps in the game of taroc. Various images are used by different artists to represent the themes of each card.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun singular or plural A card game played in various different variations.
- noun Any of the set of 78
playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used formystical divination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although the tarot is most often used as a tool for divination, tarot cards are also great, practical tools for writing and creative thinking.
The Tarot as a Tool for Writing Your Novel | Write to Done 2009
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Oh hell, I guess if you want a random technique absolutely disconnected from the real world, tarot is a great idea.
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EC12: Who was Urbino's "Prince of Astrology," and why was he interested in tarot cards?
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His second book, The Magician and the Fool has a slippery subtly that rewards repeat visits, and his historical theory about the origin of the tarot is going to keep the New Agers buzzing for some time.
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As the tarot is but a model, you can discover in your environment objects, actions, and activities that will evoke the same effects as contemplation of a Trump.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Replying, the junior minister Phil Hope scoffed at courses in tarot reading and stand-up comedy.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Psychic killers stalk the landscape of Earth after a nuclear apocalypse in which hoodoo and the tarot are the dominant belief system.
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She adds that Italian novelist Italo Calvino went so far as to call the tarot “a machine for writing stories.”
The Tarot as a Tool for Writing Your Novel | Write to Done 2009
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Psychic killers stalk the landscape of Earth after a nuclear apocalypse in which hoodoo and the tarot are the dominant belief system.
May 2009 2009
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If the idea of tarot is not too weird for you, I recommend trying this.
With a little help from my Tarot GreenFertility 2009
chained_bear commented on the word tarot
Origin: 1590–1600; back formation from taros (pl.) < MF < It. tarocchi, pl. of tarocco.
Kewl!
October 28, 2007