saturnalia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.

   “CATULLUS described the Saturnalia as “the merriest festival of the year,” and Seneca [the Younger] reported that “all Rome seemed to go mad on this holiday.” The Saturnalia, named for Saturnus, an ancient agricultural deity, began on Dec. 17.”

2. isim Alternative letter-case form of saturnalia.

   “For New York Times photographers, it has been a night to leave their families in order to document the Saturnalia of Times Square.”

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

   “a man who mounts the Hustings, must not allow himself to be sore-boned, or he invites his opponents to 'touch him on the raw,' not in the exercise of their malice, but their power; an election is a saturnalia."”