saturnalia
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Saturnalia¹
- /ˌsætəˈneɪli.ə/ UK
- /ˌsætɚˈneɪli.ə/ US
- /ˌsætɚˈneɪljə/ US
Rhymes with -eɪliə
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin Sāturnālia.
proper noun Saturnalia · the Saturnalia · Saturnalias
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An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.
Saturn was an ancient Italian deity. It was attempted to identify him with the Grecian god Cronos, and fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter he fled to Italy, where he reigned during what was called the Golden Age. In memory of his beneficent dominion, the feast of Saturnalia was held every
Similar: Saturnalians, Saturnals
noun Saturnalias
- Alternative letter-case form of saturnalia It was odd that the literary festival should be turned into a Donnybrook fair, but so it was when I was a boy, and the tents and the shows and the crowds on the Common were to the promiscuous many the essential parts of the great occasion. They had been so for generations, and it was only gradually
saturnalia²
- /ˌsætəˈneɪli.ə/ UK
- /ˌsætɚˈneɪli.ə/ US
- /ˌsætɚˈneɪljə/ US
Where it comes from
From Saturnalia (“a festival of the winter solstice”).
noun saturnalias · Saturnalia
- A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry. a man who mounts the Hustings, must not allow himself to be sore-boned, or he invites his opponents to 'touch him on the raw,' not in the exercise of their malice, but their power; an election is a saturnalia."
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name holiday to mark the winter solstice
| Português | Saturnália |
|---|---|
| Italiano | Saturnali |
| Русский | сатурна́лии saturnálii |
| עברית | סָטַרְנַלְיָא satarnálya, סְטַרְנוּרָא starnúra |
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