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Definition of Tarot
1. 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.
Definition of Tarot
1. n. A game of cards; -- called also taroc.
Definition of Tarot
1. Noun. (context: singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations. ¹
2. Noun. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tarot
1. any of a set of playing cards used for fortune-telling [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarot
Literary usage of Tarot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Waite, A. E: tarot of the Bohemians. $3; key, |1. '10. Theosophical pub. Bohn,
William Edward, 1877- (tr ..."
2. The Theosophical Review by Theosophical Publishing Society (London, England) (1896)
"M. Papus' book on the tarot is a remainder, re-issued at a reduced price. It gives
a full and interesting account of the general principles that underlie ..."
3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"... because to do so would make this chapter too long, and also because the student
of the tarot needs, in a measure, to work out its meaning for himself. ..."
4. The Argonaut (1877)
"Several circumstances combined to make tarot urgent in detaining Baptiste.
A rival Purveyor had a rival star in readiness, should Baptiste's retirement; ..."
5. The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah by Arthur Edward Waite (1902)
"V. THE KABALAH AND THE tarot It is very well known to all occult students at the
present day that the tarot is a method of divination* by means of ..."
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