Crossword-Solution: SATURNALIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saturnalia | n. pl. | The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. |
| Saturnalia | n. pl. | Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence. |
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| SATURNALIA | anagram | AUSTRALIAN |
We have 23 clues for the answer “SATURNALIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a wild party or orgy | 1 answer |
| Period of revelry | 1 answer |
| Festival that the poet Catullus called "the best of days" | 1 answer |
| Bawdy Roman festival | 1 answer |
| Australian sort of Roman revelry | 1 answer |
| Riotous carnival. | 1 answer |
| Roman festival | 1 answer |
| Roman festival, probable origin of gift-giving at Christmas. | 1 answer |
| WINGDING, ROMAN STYLE | 1 answer |
| Wild revelry | 3 answers |
| Unrestrained revelry | 3 answers |
| AN ORGIASTIC FESTIVAL IN ANCIENT ROME IN HONOR OF SATURN | 11 answers |
| Wing-ding | 15 answers |
| FAST living | 17 answers |
| life of the senses | 21 answers |
| orgy | 21 answers |
| revelry | 22 answers |
| high life | 30 answers |
| festival | 37 answers |
| high living | 41 answers |
| full life | 50 answers |
| festivity | 50 answers |
| debauch | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SATURNALIA (5)
There sat Colonel Adams, still unaffectedly dressed as a pantaloon, with the knobbed whalebone nodding above his brow, but with his poor old eyes sad enough to have sobered a Saturnalia.
When the ensuing saturnalia was over, Billy finished the game of marbles which the judge had interrupted, and then set out to execute his commission.
The festivals of Babylon were dark With flaring flambeaux that the wind blew down; The Saturnalia were a wild boy's lark With rain-quenched torches dripping thru the town-- But you have found a god and filched from him A fire that neither wind nor rain can dim.
Diana was Diva Jana or "Dea Jana who is the same as Astarte or Ashtaroth of the Sidonians." Regarding the transference of the mid-winter festival of the pagans to the Christian calendar, Forlong says: "The early Christians undoubtedly selected this Roman Saturnalia as an important period in the life of Christ, at first calling it the time of his conception, and later of his birth, this last best suiting the views and feelings of their Solo-Christian flocks.
But whether it be so, or be a remnant of the ancient Saturnalia, or an incorporation of both, or have its origin in anything else, I shall always remember it, and the frolic, as a brilliant and most captivating sight: no less remarkable for the unbroken good-humour of all concerned, down to the very lowest (and among those who scaled the carriages, were many of the commonest men and boys), than for its innocent vivacity.
Quotes with SATURNALIA (3)
The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives
Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daug…
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness a jolt from normality a sharpening of the edge of appetite his own little festival of the Saturnalia a brief excursion from his way of life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).