"tarot" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtæɹəʊ/ [UK], /ˈtæɹoʊ/ [US] Forms: tarots [plural]
Rhymes: -æɹəʊ Etymology: Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|tarot}} French tarot, {{der|en|it|tarocco}} Italian tarocco, {{cog|de|Tarock}} German Tarock Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)
  1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations. Tags: countable, plural, singular, uncountable Categories (topical): Card games Translations (card game): таро (taro) [neuter] (Bulgarian), tarot [masculine] (Catalan), 塔羅牌 (Chinese Mandarin), 塔罗牌 (tǎluó pái) (Chinese Mandarin), 塔羅 (Chinese Mandarin), 塔罗 (tǎluó) (Chinese Mandarin), 意大利紙牌 (Chinese Mandarin), 意大利纸牌 (Yìdàlì zhǐpái) (Chinese Mandarin), taroky [masculine, plural] (Czech), tarot [neuter] (Danish), tarokoj (Esperanto), tarot (Finnish), tarokki (Finnish), tarot [masculine] (French), taroc [masculine] (Friulian), ტარო (ṭaro) (Georgian), Tarot [masculine, neuter] (German), ταρό (taró) [neuter] (Greek), tarot (Hungarian), tarocco [masculine] (Italian), タロット (tarotto) (Japanese), 타로 (taro) (Korean), تارو (târo) (Persian), تاروت (târot) (Persian), tarot [masculine] (Polish), tarok [masculine] (Polish), tarô [masculine] (Portuguese), таро́ (taró) [neuter] (Russian), тарот [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tarot [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tarot (Turkish) Translations (individual card): 塔羅牌 (Chinese Mandarin), 塔罗牌 (tǎluó pái) (Chinese Mandarin), 塔羅卡 (Chinese Mandarin), 塔罗卡 (tǎluó kǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), taroko (Esperanto), tarot-kortti (Finnish), carte de tarot [feminine] (French), tarot [masculine] (French), Tarotkarte [feminine] (German), ταρό (taró) [neuter] (Greek), tarotkártya (Hungarian), タロット (tarotto) (Japanese), タロットカード (tarottokādo) (Japanese), ка́рта таро́ (kárta taró) [feminine] (Russian), таро́ (taró) [neuter] (Russian)
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  2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Card games, Cartomancy, Occult
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Derived forms: tarotist, tarotologist, tarotology

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.\n[…] 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."
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          "text": "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\nThey took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.\nAs 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."
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      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "塔羅牌"
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      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "塔罗牌"
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      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "塔羅"
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      "word": "塔罗"
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      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "意大利紙牌"
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      "roman": "Yìdàlì zhǐpái",
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      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṭaro",
      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "ტარო"
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      "word": "Tarot"
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "taró",
      "sense": "card game",
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      "word": "ταρό"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "tarot"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "card game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tarocco"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tarotto",
      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "タロット"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "taro",
      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "타로"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "târo",
      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "تارو"
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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "târot",
      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "تاروت"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "card game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tarot"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "card game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tarok"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "card game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tarô"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "taró",
      "sense": "card game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "таро́"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "card game",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "тарот"
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      "word": "tarot"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "card game",
      "word": "tarot"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "塔羅牌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tǎluó pái",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "塔罗牌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "塔羅卡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tǎluó kǎ",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "塔罗卡"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "taroko"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "tarot-kortti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "carte de tarot"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tarot"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Tarotkarte"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "taró",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ταρό"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "tarotkártya"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tarotto",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "タロット"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tarottokādo",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "word": "タロットカード"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kárta taró",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ка́рта таро́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "taró",
      "sense": "individual card",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "таро́"
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}

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