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Saturn

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Noun

1. saturn

a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun

2. saturn

(Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus

Example Sentences:
'Saturday is Saturn's Day'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Saturn

see synonyms of saturn
noun
the Roman god of agriculture and vegetation
. Greek counterpart: Cronus
noun
1. 
one of the giant planets, the sixth planet from the sun, around which revolve planar concentric rings (Saturn's rings) consisting of small frozen particles. The planet has 62 satellites. Mean distance from sun: 1425 million km; period of revolution around sun: 29.41 years; period of axial rotation: 10.23 hours; equatorial diameter and mass: 9.26 and 95.3 times that of the earth, respectively
See also Titan
2. 
a large US rocket used for launching various objects, such as a spaceprobe or an Apollo spacecraft, into space
3.  the alchemical name for lead2

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Saturn

see synonyms of saturn
noun
1.  Roman Mythology
the god of agriculture: identified with the Greek Cronus
2. 
the second largest planet of the solar system and the sixth in distance from the sun: it has a thin, icy ring system around its equator: diameter, c. 120,540 km (c. 74,900 mi); period of revolution, 29.46 earth years; period of rotation, 10.66 hours; 60 satellites; symbol, ♄
3.  Alchemy
lead2 (sense 1)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Saturn

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n.
1. Roman Mythology The god of agriculture.
2. The sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 29.5 years at a mean distance of about 1.43 billion kilometers (891 million miles), a mean diameter of approximately 121,000 kilometers (75,000 miles), and a mass 96 times that of Earth.

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