Saturnalia

Quick meaning: Saturnalia is a noun meaning A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.

Meaning

A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.

Example Sentences

We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.

Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.

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.

It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.

Word Forms

• saturnalias

Synonyms for saturnalia

Depending on context, synonyms include debauch, orgy, riot, debauchery, bacchanalia, bacchanal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bacchanalia, orgy, bacchanal, debauchery, debauch, riot.

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