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SATURNALIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Saturnalia mean?

• SATURNALIA (noun)
The noun SATURNALIA has 2 senses:

1. an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
2. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Familiarity information: SATURNALIA used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SATURNALIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Saturnalia" is a kind of...):

festival; fete (an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; bacchanalia; saturnalia; bacchanal; orgy; riot

Hypernyms ("saturnalia" is a kind of...):

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

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