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Definitions: SATURNIAN |
SATURNIANAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year. 2. Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment. 3. Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age. Noun1. Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus. |
Date "SATURNIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Innocence | Adjective: innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian; (artless). |
Pain | Palmy, halcyon, Saturnian. |
Prosperity | Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Saturnian verses, a line of verse has seven feet, divided by a central caesura. The basic rhythm is trochaic; the unstressed syllables are weak, and may be dropped, or an extra weak syllable added; the weak syllables are usually are dropped in front of the caesura. A line from Naevius illustrates the form:
/ / / / | / / / Subegit omne Loucana | opsidesque abdoucit(He conquered all of Lucania and drove away the beseigers.)
The form could be illustrated in English by the line:
/ / / / | / / / There was a man in our town, | wondrous wise and cunning.The Saturnian metre fell out of use in Latin literature after the introduction of the hexameter and other Greek forms.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saturnian."
Crosswords: SATURNIAN |
| English words defined with "SATURNIAN": Cronian ♦ Saturnian verse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SATURNIAN": Kissing under the Mistletoe ♦ Saturnian Days, Saturnian Verses ♦ Youth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SATURNIAN": saturnine. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! Polydore Smith Z |
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Expressions using "SATURNIAN": saturnian age ♦ saturnian metre ♦ Saturnian verse ♦ the saturnian age. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SATURNIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сатурнов, щастлив (auspicious, blessed, favored, favoured, fortunate, glad, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, palmy, providential, well), въображаем жител на сатурн, непорочен (chaste, pure, pure-minded, saintly, taintless, unblemished, vestal, virginal, virtuous), блажен (beatific, beatifical, blissful, heavenly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aturniansay saturnal. (various references) satürne ait, satürn ile ilgili. (various references) сатурнічний, сатурнів. (various references) ph"n vinh (prosperous, prosperously, thrifty), huy ho ng (lustrous, princely, proud, proudly, refulgent, royal, royally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-n-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: insurant. | |
-2 letters: antiars, anurans, anurias, artisan, inturns, nutrias, saurian, tsarina, uranias. | |
-3 letters: antiar, anuran, anuria, arista, aurist, instar, inturn, inurns, nairas, nutria, ratans, riatas, ruanas, rutins, santir, santur, strain, suntan, tarsia, tiaras, trains, urania. | |
-4 letters: airns, airts, annas, antas, antis, antra, arias, astir, atria, aunts, auras, auris, inurn, naans, naira, nanas, naris, raias, rains, ranis, rants, ratan, riant, riata, ruana, ruins, runts, rutin, saint, saran, sarin, satin, sauna, sitar, stain, stair, stria, suint, sunna, sutra, tains, tarns, tarsi, tiara, train, trans, tunas, turns, unais, units. | |
-5 letters: ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anas, anis, anna, ansa, anta, anti, ants, anus, aria, arts, aunt, aura, inns, naan, nana, nans, nits, nuns, nuts, raia, rain, rani, rant, rats, rias, rins, ruin, runs, runt, rust, ruts, sain, sari, sati, snit, star, stir, stun, suit, sunn, sura, tain, tans, tarn, tars, taus, tins, tsar, tuis, tuna, tuns, turn, unai, unit, urns, ursa, utas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-n-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: unitarians, unsanitary. | |
+2 letters: antinatures, quarantines, saturnalian, transuranic. | |
+3 letters: annunciators, antiquarians, granulations, instauration, naturalising, neurasthenia, transudation, transuranics, transuranium, transvaluing, unitarianism, urbanisation. | |
+4 letters: antisubmarine, denaturations, humanitarians, inaugurations, instaurations, neurasthenias, renaturations, saturnalianly, strangulating, strangulation, supernational, supranational, transfusional, transmountain, transmutation, transudations, unitarianisms, urbanisations, urbanizations. | |
+5 letters: anthraquinones, antiquarianism, argumentations, communitarians, degranulations, documentarians, intracutaneous, manufacturings, neuroanatomies, neuroanatomist, septuagenarian, solitudinarian, strangulations, superannuating, superannuation, transductional, transmutations, transvaluating, transvaluation, triangulations, ultramontanism, unstandardized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 54 55 52 4E 49 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- - ..- .-. -. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000001 01010100 01010101 01010010 01001110 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A T U R N I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0054 0055 0052 004E 0049 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533554555248433548 |
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