Saturnian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the planet Saturn.
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of or relating to the god Saturn, whose reign is referred to as the “golden age.”
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prosperous, happy, or peaceful.
Saturnian days.
adjective
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of or connected with the Roman god Saturn, whose reign was thought of as a golden age
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of or relating to the planet Saturn
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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
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Origin of Saturnian
1550–60; < Latin Sāturni ( us ) of Saturn + -an
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When scientists using NASA's Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life.
From Salon • May 29, 2024
The mission ended in 2017 when Cassini plunged into the Saturnian atmosphere, after diving 22 times between the planet and its rings.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023
The Cassini orbiter spent 13 years buzzing around in the Saturnian system, mapping these features in detail.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2021
“This kind of grouping of outer moons is also seen around Jupiter, indicating violent collisions occurred between moons in the Saturnian system or with outside objects such as passing asteroids or comets,” Sheppard said.
From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2019
Ennius prided himself especially on being the first to form the strong speech of Latium into the mould of the Homeric hexameter in place of the old Saturnian metre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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