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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Saturnalia
Saturnalia
n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
promiscuity [syn:
orgy,
debauch,
debauchery,
riot,
bacchanal,
bacchanalia,
drunken revelry]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Saturnalia
Saturnalia
\Sat`ur*na"li*a\, n. pl. [L. See
Saturn.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which
the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
[1913 Webster]
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