Saturnalia

Definition

Alternative letter-case form of saturnalia.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Sāturnālia.

Example Sentences

• "It was odd that the literary festival should be turned into a Donnybrook fair, but so it was when I was a boy, and the tents and the shows and the crowds on the Common were to the promiscuous many the essential parts of the great occasion. They had been so for generations, and it was only gradually that the Cambridge Saturnalia were replaced by the decencies and solemnities of the present sober anniversary."
• "For New York Times photographers, it has been a night to leave their families in order to document the Saturnalia of Times Square."
• "G N’ R, as they are colloquially known, were an affront to the ears and nostrils of civilised society, a Saturnalia in the flesh and in the speakers."