Saturnian

American  

[suh-tur-nee-uhn] / səˈtɜr ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the planet Saturn.

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

3. prosperous, happy, or peaceful.

   Saturnian days.

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Saturnian British  

/ sæˈtɜːnɪən /

adjective

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

2. of or relating to the planet Saturn

3. 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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noun

1. a line in Saturnian metre

Other Word Forms

• trans-Saturnian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Saturnian

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

Example Sentences

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

It brings the number of Saturnian moons to 82, surpassing the 79 that are known to orbit Jupiter, its larger, inner neighbour.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2019

The simple prose dialogues were probably varied by songs in the rude Saturnian metre: the language was that of the common people, accompanied by lively gesticulation and movements.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various