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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The team observed Saturn's northern auroral region continuously for an entire Saturnian day.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
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
Long live Sun Ra and the Saturnian Queen — I am truly, truly thankful for them.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023
“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
These songs were always done in a certain style, and this style of verse came to be known later as Saturnian poetry, and the sly personal fun in them was called satirical.
From The Childhood of Rome by Lamprey, Louise
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