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Meaning of "minor arcana" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MINOR ARCANA

minor arcana  [ˈmaɪnəʳ ɑːˈkeɪnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINOR ARCANA

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Minor arcana is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MINOR ARCANA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana are the 56 suit cards of the 78-card deck of tarot playing cards. The Minor Arcana comprise four suits with 14 cards each. Although there are variations, the Minor Arcana commonly employ the Italo-Spanish suits: Wands, cups, swords, and pentacles. In contrast, the French suits are spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs. Each Minor Arcana card in a suit is numbered one to ten, except for the court cards —page, knight, queen, and king—which are comparable to face cards. In one variation, princess and prince cards replace the page and knight cards. Some Italian decks add two more court cards: the maid and the mounted lady. Since contemporary decks of French playing cards replace both the knight and the page with the jack or knave, such decks only have 52 cards. The remaining 22 cards in a tarot deck are the Major Arcana. Minor Arcana cards in contemporary tarot decks are usually illustrated—a convention popularized by the Rider-Waite tarot deck ca. 1910. Non-illustrated cards bear symmetrical arrangements of pips.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MINOR ARCANA


ana
ˈeɪnə
arcana
ɑːˈkeɪnə
Cana
ˈkeɪnə
caner
ˈkeɪnə
chicaner
ʃɪˈkeɪnə
container
kənˈteɪnə
Dana
ˈdeɪnə
entertainer
ˌɛntəˈteɪnə
gainer
ˈɡeɪnə
Magdalena
ˌmæɡdəˈleɪnə
no-brainer
ˌnəʊˈbreɪnə
planar
ˈpleɪnə
planer
ˈpleɪnə
quena
ˈkeɪnə
rana
ˈreɪnə
retainer
rɪˈteɪnə
scena
ˈʃeɪnə
seiner
ˈseɪnə
strainer
ˈstreɪnə
trainer
ˈtreɪnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINOR ARCANA

minor
minor axis
minor canon
minor key
minor league
minor mode
minor orders
minor planet
minor premise
Minor Prophets
minor seventh
minor seventh chord
minor suit
minor term
Minorca
Minorcan
minoritaire
Minorite
minorities
minority

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINOR ARCANA

Africana
Americana
banana
Botswana
chicana
Diana
French Guiana
Ghana
Guiana
Guyana
Indiana
lana
Louisiana
major arcana
mana
Montana
Prato in Toscana
rusticana
Toscana
Tucana

Synonyms and antonyms of minor arcana in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «minor arcana» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINOR ARCANA

Find out the translation of minor arcana to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of minor arcana from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «minor arcana» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小阿尔克那
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arcanos menores
570 millions of speakers

English

minor arcana
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नाबालिग Arcana
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أركانا طفيفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Малых Арканов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arcanos menores
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছোটখাট আর্কানা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arcanes mineurs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Arcana kecil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kleinen Arkana
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マイナーアルカナ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마이너 아르카나
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Minor arcana
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bí nhỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறு ஆர்க்கானா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किरकोळ आर्केना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Küçük arcana
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arcani minori
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

minor arcana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

малих Арканов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Arcana minor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικρές arcana
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

minderjarige Arcana
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lilla arcana
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

minor arcana
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINOR ARCANA»

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1
Kabbalistic Tarot: Hebraic Wisdom in the Major and Minor Arcana
Reveals the intimate relationship of the tarot to the esoteric teachings of the Torah and Kabbalah, and provides kabbalistic interpretations for all seventy-eight tarot cards along with a detailed kabbalistic reading and interpretation of ...
Dovid Krafchow, 2005
2
Tarot and the Tree of Life: Finding Everyday Wisdom in the ...
In refreshingly down-to-earth terms and with a joyous, commonsense wisdom, Kliegman demystifies the Tarot by revealing its "small secrets."
Isabel Radow Kliegman, 1997
3
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tarot
Between the 56 Minor Arcana and the 22 Major Arcana cards, you have the full spectrum of your talents and abilities, your karmic lessons and your Free Will, and the choices you'll make to try new ideas and learn the lessons of fate. How these ...
Arlene Tognetti, Lisa Lenard, 2003
4
The Haindl Tarot: The Minor Arcana
The Minor Arcana show the human responsibility to fulfill cosmic needs, to enable nature to heal itself, and spiritual truth to be realized in the physical world.
Rachel Pollack, 1990
5
Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners
Celtic Cross Layouts Showing Major & Minor Arcana Choices Exercise 12.2 — Comparing the Arcanas Separately Remove all the major arcana cards from the deck and place them in a pile. Choosea minor arcana card for each one that has a ...
Joan Bunning, 1998
6
Tall Dark Stranger: Tarot for Love and Romance
While the Major Arcana cards show us important developments, like falling in love, the Minor Arcana cards show us how those occurrences unfold. You may draw the Lovers card from the Major Arcana, but that doesn't mean you're going to ...
Corrine Kenner, 2005
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Tarot for Life: Reading the Cards for Everyday Guidance and ...
The. Minor. Arcana: Life. in. Snapshots. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. —Grandma Moses The Minor Arcana are fifty-six cards divided into four suits, each of which represents the characteristic energies of one of the ...
Paul Quinn, 2009
8
Tarot Card Combinations
The Lesser or Minor Arcana The 56 Cards of the Minor Arcana are similar to a deck of playing cards. They consist of four suits. The court cards-King, Queen, Knight, Page, and Ace-fall into the pattern of the picture cards of the playing deck.
Dorothy Kelly, 2003
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The Complete New Tarot
In older versions of the Tarot, the Minor Arcana do not bear a picture. Arthur Waite and Pamela Coleman Smith greatly contributed to the Tarot by providing the Tarot cards of the Minor Arcana with archetypal pictures that clarify their meaning.
Onno Docters van Leeuwen, Rob Docters van Leeuwen, 2004
10
The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in ...
The New Generation Witches is the first published anthology to investigate the recent rise of the teenage Witchcraft phenomenon in both Britain and North America.
Ms Peg Aloi, Ms Hannah E Johnston, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINOR ARCANA»

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Girls Rock Detroit empowers local girls to get loud
... Pontiac) and Willa Rae Adamo (of Ms. Willa Rae and the Minor Arcana). The trio originally met in 2011 as volunteers at Girls Rock! Chicago. «Metromode Media, Jul 15»
2
Obsidian Apocalypse Player's Guide
... to gain an arcane pool that applies only to the gunslinger's firearm and lace bullets with necromantic hellfire as well as minor arcana abilities. «NERD TREK, Jul 15»
3
Fool's Journey: The Language of Numbers in the Minor Arcana
Tarot is a system. This is one of the key things that sets it apart from other forms of cartomancy (card-based divination), such as oracle decks. «Autostraddle, Jul 15»
4
King of queens photos on show
King's exhibition was inspired by the four queens of the Minor Arcana tarot cards, reincarnated in an all-star Vivien's line-up of Bridget Flint, ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»
5
Dark Arts: A Chat with the 'Penny Dreadful' Tarot Cards Creator
For the minor arcana, he wished to have the same drawing with the cups, swords, wands, and pentacles repeated. W&F: Did you write the ... «WordandFilm.com, Jul 15»
6
New CD compilation of DIME artists “an eclectic mix of alternative …
02 Ladylike - Ms. Willa Rae & The Minor Arcana - M. 21 plays21. Original1265Recordings - 02 Ladylike - Ms. Willa Rae & The Minor Arcana - M. «Detroit Metro Times, Jun 15»
7
Tarot-reading lessons aim to fight stigma
The cards are broken into two groups called Major and Minor Arcana. They are also divided into four suits: Pentacle, Wand, Cup and Sword. «Williston Daily Herald, Jun 15»
8
What Is Tarot? A Professional Tarot Card Reader Tells All
The cards are categorized either as Major Arcana or Minor Arcana. The 22 Major Arcana cards depict images like the Hanged Man, the Devil, ... «International Business Times, May 15»
9
'Penny Dreadful' Season 2 Episode 3 RECAP: Is Vanessa Ives A …
... cards aren't always so literal and teaches her young ward how to psychically feel the different meanings of both the Major and Minor Arcana. «Fashion & Style, May 15»
10
Women artists, poets, musicians gather for Foxfest
... acoustic blues band Ms. Willa Rae and the Minor Arcana, and a special group performance from local songbirds Audra Kubat, Emily Rose, ... «The Detroit News, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Minor arcana [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/minor-arcana>. Apr 2024 ».
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