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Roman festival, probable origin of gift-giving at Christmas
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saturnalia
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Saturnalia is a science fiction comic by Nina Matsumoto , also known as space coyote . It won in the 2004 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards . The story is on indefinite hold while Matsumoto is working on her recently published series, Yōkaiden , as well as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
time of merrymaking, 1590s, from Latin Saturnalia , ancient Roman festivals of Saturn (held in December), a time of merrymaking for all, from neuter adjective Saturnalis "pertaining to Saturn," from Saturnus (see Saturn ). They correspond to the Greek Kronia ...
Usage examples of saturnalia.
It was a cross between Saturnalia, Oktoberfest, the Olympics, and May Day.
And I had a practically inexhaustible supply of Reality Pills for Halloween, saturnalia, and bar mitzvahs.
Just as the great end-of-the-year festival was getting under way, Plautia provided Sabinus with a tiny, warm Saturnalia present whom they named Flavius Clemens.
During the licentious days of the Saturnalia, the streets of the city resounded with insolent songs, which derided the laws, the religion, the personal conduct, and even the beard, of the emperor.
He could complain authoritatively about the lonelinessof a stranger in Athens during the Eleusyian Mysteries, in ancient Baghdadduring Ramadan, in Rome at Saturnalia, in China at New Year, in the Cave of theOld Ones at the Feast of the Great Bear .
Saturnia, several miles inland and halfway to Monte Amiata, was now just a small village beside a great stone wall, built round the hot sulphur springs which had made it a favourite spot for the Romans, who celebrated the feast of Saturnalia there.
But in some cultures it developed as a religious holiday peculiar to theocracies: the safety-valve holiday, the day of excesses, of sin without punishment, the saturnalia.