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# saturnalia

noun (saturnalias or saturnalia)

«saturnalia» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A festival in ancient Rome held in December, with feasting, games and a reversal of normal rules, honouring the god Saturn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#m1)
2. Any wild, noisy party where ordinary rules are dropped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/#m2)

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «saturnalia» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturnalia/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«saturnalia» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/saturnalia.html) on Mova free.