Saturnalia
name/ˌsætəˈneɪli.ə/UK/ˌsætɚˈneɪli.ə/US
Etymology
From Saturnalia (“a festival of the winter solstice”).
- learned borrowing from Sāturnālia
Definitions
An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.
Alternative letter-case form of saturnalia.
- For New York Times photographers, it has been a night to leave their families in order to document the Saturnalia of Times Square.
- G N’ R, as they are colloquially known, were an affront to the ears and nostrils of civilised society, a Saturnalia in the flesh and in the speakers.
A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous…
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."
- They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA