VALEDICTORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does valedictory mean?
• VALEDICTORY (noun)
The noun VALEDICTORY has 1 sense:
1. a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
Familiarity information: VALEDICTORY used as a noun is very rare.
• VALEDICTORY (adjective)
The adjective VALEDICTORY has 2 senses:
1. of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell
2. of a speech expressing leave-taking
Familiarity information: VALEDICTORY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VALEDICTORY (noun)
Meaning:
A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
valediction; valedictory; valedictory address; valedictory oration
Hypernyms ("valedictory" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))
• VALEDICTORY (adjective)
Meaning:
Of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context examples:
a valedictory address / valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course / a suitable valedictory gesture
Pertainym:
valediction (the act of saying farewell)
Meaning:
Of a speech expressing leave-taking
Context example:
a valedictory address
Similar:
exaugural (occurring at or marking the close of a term of office)
