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cartomancy

/ˈkɑɹtəˌmænsi/

cartomancy noun: fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.

Noun

cartomancy (uncountable)

  1. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
    • These travelling magicians [...] rarely penetrated more deeply into magic than cartomancy, palmistry and the like.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 91

cartomancy meaning in Bengali and Vietnamese

cartomancy in Bengali

তাস ব্যবহার করে ভাগ্যগণনা

cartomancy in Vietnamese

fortune-telling using cards
phép bói bài

Origin of cartomancy

From carto- + -mancy.

Words formed from cartomancy

Questions about cartomancy

What does cartomancy mean?
Cartomancy means fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
What is cartomancy in Bengali?
Cartomancy in Bengali is তাস ব্যবহার করে ভাগ্যগণনা. See Cartomancy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cartomancy?
Cartomancy is a noun.
How do you pronounce cartomancy?
Cartomancy is pronounced /ˈkɑɹtəˌmænsi/.

Words near cartomancy in the dictionary

  1. cartologist
  2. cartologists
  3. cartology
  4. cartomancer
  5. cartomancers
  6. cartomancy
  7. cartomantic
  8. cartometric
  9. cartometrics
  10. cartomizer
  11. cartomizers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cartomancy (page history and authors); cartomancy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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