Definitions for Saturnalia

Saturnalia Sat·ur·na·li·a

Spelling: [sat-er-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh]
IPA: /ˌsæt ərˈneɪ li ə, -ˈneɪl yə/

Saturnalia is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 585 anagrams from letters in Saturnalia (aaailnrstu).

Definitions for Saturnalia

noun

  1. (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
  2. (lowercase) unrestrained revelry; orgy.

Origin of Saturnalia

1585-95; Latin Sāturnālia, equivalent to Sāturn(us) Saturn + -ālia, neuter plural of -ālis -al1

Examples for Saturnalia

The holydays are made a jubilee, or rather resemble the Saturnalia.

At the return of the sun the feast of the Saturnalia was celebrated at Rome.

The week of the rule of Saturn, the Saturnalia, was a time of revelry and riot.

The Saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close.

As at the Saturnalia, masters drank and gambled with slaves.

They were like the Roman slaves who, during the Saturnalia, played at being free.

That is the sense of the Saturnalia, of Mardi Gras and of these moments of entertainment.

The sacea were a festival at Babylon similar to the Saturnalia.

But for the present they were absolute, and the Saturnalia of blood went on.

And I remember that she seemed to describe afterwards a sort of Saturnalia.

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