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Cerealia

UK/sɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/

Cerealia proper noun: a festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.

Proper noun

Cerealia

  1. A festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.
    • The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, and it walked still.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12

Origin of Cerealia

From the Classical Latin Cereālia.

Questions about Cerealia

What does Cerealia mean?
Cerealia means a festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.
What part of speech is Cerealia?
Cerealia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Cerealia?
Cerealia is pronounced /sɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/ (UK).

Words near Cerealia in the dictionary

  1. cereal bars
  2. Cereal City
  3. cereal itch
  4. cereal leaf beetle
  5. cereal leaf beetles
  6. Cerealia
  7. Cerealian
  8. cerealic
  9. cerealin
  10. cerealist
  11. cerealists

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