Usually means: Festive Roman celebration, unrestrained revelry.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. saturnalia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. saturnalia: Merriam-Webster
  3. Saturnalia, saturnalia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. saturnalia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Saturnalia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Saturnalia, saturnalia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Saturnalia, saturnalia: Wordnik
  8. Saturnalia, saturnalia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. saturnalia: Wiktionary
  10. Saturnalia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Saturnalia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Saturnalia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. saturnalia: Dictionary.com
  14. saturnalia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Saturnalia (Macrobius), Saturnalia (The Gutter Twins album), Saturnalia (The Wedding Present album), Saturnalia (dinosaur), Saturnalia (horse), Saturnalia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Saturnalia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. saturnalia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Saturnalia: Rhymezone
  19. Saturnalia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. saturnalia: FreeDictionary.org
  21. saturnalia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. saturnalia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Saturnalia: World Wide Words
  24. saturnalia: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Saturnalia: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Saturnalia: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. saturnalia: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Saturnalia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See saturnalian as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (historical) An Ancient Roman holiday honoring the deity Saturn.
noun:  A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.

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