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RELATED WORD : inaugural address

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun inaugural has 2 senses

• inaugural(n = noun.communication) inaugural address - an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president); Array
is a part of inaugural, inauguration
is a kind of address, speech

• inaugural(n = noun.act) inauguration - the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration"
has parts: inaugural, inaugural address
is a kind of induction, initiation, installation

Adjective inaugural has 2 senses

• inaugural(a = adj.all) Array - occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball"
Antonym: exaugural

• inaugural(s = adj.all) first, initiative, initiatory, maiden - serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"

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inaugural

abecedarian, aboriginal, address, advanced, after-dinner speech, allocution, antecedent, antenatal, anterior, autochthonous, avant-garde, baccalaureate service, beginning, budding, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, chalk talk, chief, commencement, convocation, creative, debate, declamation, diatribe, elemental, elementary, embryonic, empty formality, eulogy, exercise, exercises, exhortation, exordial, exploratory, fetal, filibuster, first, foremost, forensic, forensic address, formal, formal speech, formality, formative, foundational, function, fundamental, funeral oration, gestatory, graduation, graduation exercises, harangue, headmost, hortatory address, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural address, inauguration, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, induction, infant, infantile, initial, initiation, initiative, initiatory, installation, introductory, invective, inventive, investiture, jeremiad, leading, liturgy, mummery, nascent, natal, observance, office, oration, original, parturient, pep talk, performance, peroration, philippic, pitch, postnatal, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparatory, prepared speech, prepared text, prevenient, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, prior, procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, religious ceremony, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, rudimental, rudimentary, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, service, set speech, solemnity, solemnization, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, ur, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

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inaugural

Precursor

N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.

Beginning

N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

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