Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Saturn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Saturn \Sa"turn\, n. [L. Saturnus, literally, the sower, fr.
serere, satum, to sow. See {Season}.]
1. (Roman Myth.) One of the elder and principal deities, the
son of C[oe]lus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the
father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was
Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in
magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its
diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from
the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles,
and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun,
nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a
remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Saturn
n 1: a giant planet which is surrounded by three planar
concentric rings of ice particles; 6th planet from the
sun [syn: {Saturn}]
2: (Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation;
counterpart of Greek Cronus; "Saturday is Saturn's Day"
[syn: {Saturn}]
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