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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valedictory address mean? 

VALEDICTORY ADDRESS (noun)
  The noun VALEDICTORY ADDRESS has 1 sense:

1. a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


VALEDICTORY ADDRESS (noun)


Sense 1

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 address" is a kind of...):

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


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