KEYNOTE ADDRESS

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does keynote address mean? 

• KEYNOTE ADDRESS (noun)
  The noun KEYNOTE ADDRESS has 1 sense:

1. a speech setting forth the keynote

  Familiarity information: KEYNOTE ADDRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEYNOTE ADDRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speech setting forth the keynote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

keynote address; keynote speech

Hypernyms ("keynote address" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Meronyms (parts of "keynote address"):

keynote (the principal theme in a speech or literary work)