Saturnalian

Quick meaning: Saturnalian is an adjective meaning Riotously merry; dissolute.

Meaning

Riotously merry; dissolute.

More Meanings

1. A merrymaker, a partygoer.

Example Sentences

Sophisticated saturnalians do not drive drunk. That is why chauffeurs were invented.

There were always certain delicious cakes and other sweets as well, curious conventual dainties, of which master and pupil partook with an equal and sympathetic appetite. If, by any evil chance, M. le Directeur came near them at that moment, the sight of his rigid scornful young face brought much confusion upon these innocent saturnalians, but for the most part they were undisturbed.

There soon remained only ono day before that carnival of all sporting saturnalians, the Epsom Derby day, and Bindabun formed the prudent resolution to avoid any delays or crushings by putting Milky Way into a railway box, and despatching her to Epsom on the previous afternoon, under the chaperonago of Cadwallader Perkin, who was to engage suitable lodgings for her in the vicinity of the course.

Word Forms

• saturnalians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saturnic, saturnine, saturnian, saturnal, cronocentric, satyric.

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