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Meanings of
saturnalia
in English
Portuguese
dissipação
Catalan
bacanal
Spanish
orgía
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A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
riot
orgy
debauchery
debauch
bacchanal
bacchanalia
drunken revelry
Portuguese
dissipação
Usage of
saturnalia
in English
1
I prefer the opera-balls to the
saturnalia
of the Goddess of Reason.
2
With nightfall the
saturnalia
of death would begin again with redoubled force.
3
I never see her, but amid all the
saturnalia
she haunts me.
4
The
saturnalia
,
subdued for a moment, threatened at times to renew itself.
5
But the dram-drinking and nose-slitting of the
saturnalia
of Charles II.
6
One of the damnedest in our whole
saturnalia
of the accursed-
7
Your grandfather was the cause of the
saturnalia
which desolated France.
8
The usual signs of approaching high
saturnalia
at Machecoul had not been wanting.
9
And I remember that she seemed to describe afterwards a sort of
saturnalia
.
10
The marquis, however, while he permitted these
saturnalia
,
invariably held aloof.
11
The firmness of the commanding officers got the better of these
saturnalia
,
by degrees.
12
It was
Saturday
-
the
saturnalia
of schoolboys-anda day of rest to the venerable teacher.
13
The
saturnalia
that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close.
14
Carnegie recalled the desperate
saturnalia
he'd seen in the cages.
15
Elections are no more the
saturnalia
they used to be in the good old times.
16
The whole ceremonies lasted several days, or even weeks, and formed a kind of
saturnalia
.
Other examples for "saturnalia"
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About this term
saturnalia
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
desperate saturnalia
english saturnalia
ensue saturnalia
grand saturnalia
justify a saturnalia
More collocations
Translations for
saturnalia
Portuguese
dissipação
deboche
vivernodeboche
farra
orgia
viveremfarra
Catalan
bacanal
orgia
Spanish
orgía
Saturnalia
through the time