Saturnian

[ suh-tur-nee-uh n ]

/ səˈtɜr ni ən /

adjective

of or relating to the planet Saturn.

of or relating to the god Saturn, whose reign is referred to as the “golden age.”

prosperous, happy, or peaceful: Saturnian days.

Origin of Saturnian

1550–60; < Latin Sāturni(us) of Saturn + -an

OTHER WORDS FROM Saturnian

trans-Sa·tur·ni·an, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for saturnian

I watched them blaze and blaze and remember thinking how warm it was, how light, on the freezing Saturnian January night.

Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir |Jeanette Winterson |March 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
A Saturnian correspondingly placed would get no reflected sunlight from the ring system.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy |Richard A. Proctor
They were usually in the Saturnian metre and took the form of a dialogue, consisting of an interchange of extemporaneous raillery.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 |Various
I'd like to try getting at some of that water frozen in the Saturnian System.

Industrial Revolution |Poul William Anderson

This represents the position of the shadow at the time of Saturnian spring or autumn.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy |Richard A. Proctor
A Saturnian must be pickling insects somewhere up on the second floor.

The Wealth of Echindul |Noel Miller Loomis

British Dictionary definitions for saturnian

Saturnian

/ (sæˈtɜːnɪən) /

adjective

of or connected with the Roman god Saturn, whose reign was thought of as a golden age

of or relating to the planet Saturn

prosody denoting a very early verse form in Latin in which the accent was one of stress rather than quantity, there being an equal number of main stresses in each line, regardless of the number of unaccented syllables

noun

a line in Saturnian metre

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Saturnian

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OTHER WORDS FROM Saturnian

Example sentences from the Web for saturnian

British Dictionary definitions for saturnian

adjective

noun