meaning of saturnalia

1. The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
2.
Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
3.
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity


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