Definition of saturn
- n. - One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus
and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The
corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The metal lead.