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saturnalia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot |
| Type of | revel, revelry |
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Saturnalia may be a basal saurischian or a prosauropod.
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Saturnalia was the mid-winter feast when Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn.
From the guardian.co.uk
How did the nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement?
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Built on an incendiary combination of power, attraction and deprivation, it is a relationship that could happen only during the particular kind of saturnalia that the chaos of war breeds.
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Andrew, a peripatetic bohemian with a scruffy beard, quickly befriends a houseful of pansexual artists, who just as quickly invite Ben and Anna over for a little Friday-night saturnalia.
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Yuletide, saturnalia, the birthday of Mithras, Jesus is a bit of a late comer to the party when all's said and done even if he does bring some much needed focus on charity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals which led to more tomfoolery, marked chiefly by having masters and slaves ostensibly switch places, temporarily reversing the social order.
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- An orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
- Orgy: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- Saturnalia is the first studio album by The Gutter Twins, a collaboration between Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan. The album, which was started as far back as 2003, was released on March 4, 2008. Prior to the album's release, the duo began posting songs on their official MySpace page. ...
- Saturnalia were a British psychedelic band, whose only album was claimed to be the world's first 3D picture disc. It also gained a certain amount of notoriety by featuring the band members topless on one side of the picture disc.
- Saturnalia was a 1986 science fiction novel by Grant Callin, published by Baen Books. It was based on a short story named "Saturn Alia". It was followed by a sequel, A Lion on Tharthee.
- Saturnalia is a crime novel by Lindsey Davis.
- Saturnalia is a genus of very early saurischian dinosaur, from the Carnian faunal stage of the late Triassic period (227.4 to 220.7 million years ago), making it one of the oldest true dinosaurs yet found. It may have been a primitive sauropodomorph, a group which includes the giant sauropods. ...
- Saturnalia was one of the first single-character sword and sorcery fantasy Play-by-Mail role-playing games run in the United Kingdom. ...
- Saturnalia is a science fiction comic by Nina Matsumoto, also known as space coyote. It won Outstanding Science Fiction Comic in the 2004 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards. The story is on indefinite hold while Matsumoto is working on her recently published series, Yu014Dkaiden, as well as other projects...
