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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Etymology
Origin of Saturnian
1550–60; < Latin Sāturni ( us ) of Saturn + -an
Example Sentences
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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
Titan’s sister Saturnian moon Enceladus has revealed its subsurface sea with geyserlike plumes venting from cracks near its south pole.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 16, 2021
The Cassini orbiter spent 13 years buzzing around in the Saturnian system, mapping these features in detail.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2021
On the other hand, cretic and trochaic metres, from their affinity to the old Saturnian, came most easily to the early dramatists, and are largely employed by Plautus to express lively emotion.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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