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Cartomancy

cartomancy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Etymology

Compare French cartomancie. See card and -mancy.

Noun

cartomancy (uncountable)

  1. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.

card - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Etymology 1

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.

Noun

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

  1. A playing card. quotations ▼
  2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

He played cards with his friends.

  1. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.) quotations ▼

The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

He accused them of playing the race **card.

  1. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  2. (obsolete) A map or chart. quotations ▼
  3. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.[1] quotations ▼
  4. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.

What's on the card for tonight?

  1. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
  2. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability. synonym ▲Synonym: expansion card

He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.

  1. (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces. quotations ▼
  2. A greeting card.

She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

  1. A business card.

The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.

  1. (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
  2. A test card.
  3. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

to put a card in the newspapers

  1. (dated) A printed programme.
  2. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

  1. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. quotations ▼
  2. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
  3. An indicator card.
Hyponyms

Noun

hyponym (plural hyponyms)

  1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word. quotations ▼

The words “dog”, “cat”, and “human” are hyponyms of “animal” because dogs, cats, and humans are types of animal.

-mancy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Etymology

From Latin -mantīa, ultimately from Ancient Greek μᾰντείᾱ (manteíā, “divination”).

Suffix

-mancy

  1. Divination.
  2. (fantasy) Variety of magic, especially that controlling or related to a specific element, substance, or theme.