Saturnalia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SATURNALIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a wild party or orgy
• the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December, a period of general merrymaking and the predecessor of Christmas.
• an occasion of wild revelry or indulgence
• The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
• Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
• an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capitalize; the festival of Saturn in ancient Rome beginning on December 17

Words related to SATURNALIA

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Words that contain SATURNALIA

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How to use SATURNALIA in a sentence

• And they were sent back after the Saturnalia, for the senate decreed that any of them who remained behind should be put to death.
• And what does it prove but the resolution to mix in your carnival no more? We see clearly through it now, I tell you, that the saturnalia is wearing to its end.
• From these and sundry narratives gleaned the following day, I was able to trace the later hours of this scandalous saturnalia.
• Oroeses, king of the Albanians dwelling beyond the Cyrnus, made an expedition against them just at the time of the Saturnalia.
• He eyed the present saturnalia with strong disapproval.
• The Saturnalia were originally celebrated only for one day, but afterwards the solemnity continued for three, four, five, and at last for seven days.
• Landers, towering above her, and bigger in bone and muscle than she in sheer flesh, was like a figure from a Saturnalia.
• The marquis, however, while he permitted these saturnalia, invariably held aloof.
• His were the Saturnalia of wit, the riches and the royalty, the health and long life.
• The Saturnalia of the Romans is a remarkable instance of this characteristic of mankind.
• The jubilee of the Hebrews was the solemn festival of an agricultural people, but bears none of the ludicrous characteristics of the Roman Saturnalia.
• In the saturnalia of ignoble personal passions, of which the struggle for literary success, in old and crowded communities, offers so sad a spectacle, he never mingled.
• Moreover, no matter how often the Tarahumares indulge in such saturnalia, as soon as they recover their senses they are as decorous and solemn as ever.
• Honest citizens there were, indeed, who protested against these Saturnalia of successful villany and rampant vice, but few listened to their warnings.
• Dean Swift, among other eccentricities, determined upon having a feast once a year, in imitation of the Saturnalia in ancient Rome.
• One Saturday he was invited out to a Food Saturnalia at a Country Place.
• You and I have passed through a saturnalia of horror, and you, less inured to horrors than I, have gone down.
• In their consulship, a temple was dedicated to Saturn, and the Saturnalia appointed to be kept as a festival.
• If followed up it will result in a saturnalia of crime in this community.
• It came to the stern old Roman with his Saturnalia, when for once in all the year the slave and the plebeian might speak their minds without fear.
• All through the year this Saturnalia was prepared for in meetings held at night by their leaders.

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