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# saturnalia

«saturnalia» in Mova's school dictionary: **A festival in ancient Rome held in December, with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (saturnalias or saturnalia)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A festival in ancient Rome held in December, with feasting, games and a reversal of normal rules, honouring the god Saturn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#m1)

2) Any wild, noisy party where ordinary rules are dropped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in history and stories, a festival where people of the old world feasted and played, and the order of daily life was turned upside down

### examples

- The Saturnalia was a festival of feasting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#x1)
- The Romans celebrated the Saturnalia in December. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#x2)
- The party became a wild saturnalia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «saturnalia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.