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saturn
/ˈsæt.ɚn/
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What does saturn mean?
noun
- The Southeast Asian butterfly Zeuxidia amethystus, family Nymphalidae.
- A car of the former Saturn brand by GM.
proper noun
- The sixth planet of the solar system, known for its large rings, and until recent times the furthest known; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♄.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- The god of fertility and agriculture, equivalent to the Greek Cronos.
- A former brand of car by GM (1985–2010).
noun
- (rare) Sable (black), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures in the arms of certain sovereign people and places as planets.
- (obsolete) Lead (the metal).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsæt.ɚn/
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In the external we remember Saturn as an old man, and as a skeleton with a scythe--as Time, in fact.
He was permitted to observe some of the most striking and remarkable of the heavenly bodies-- Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon.
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The symbol or monogram of Venus was a circle and a cross, that of Saturn was a cross and a ram's horn.
Many, and perhaps all, of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn seem to turn the same hemispheres always toward their respective planets.
Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.