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salutatory
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| salutatory oration
| salutatory speaker
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salutatory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun salutatory has 1 sense
- salutatory(n = noun.communication) salutatory address, salutatory oration - an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises); Array is a kind of oratory
CIDE DICTIONARY
salutatory, a. [L. salutatorius. See Salute.].
Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges. [1913 Webster]
salutatory, n.
- A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The salutatory oration. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
salutatory, adj. & n.
--adj. of salutation.
--n. (pl. -ies) US an oration, esp. as given by a member of a graduating class, often the second-ranking member.
--adj. of salutation.
--n. (pl. -ies) US an oration, esp. as given by a member of a graduating class, often the second-ranking member.
Derivative
salutatorian n. (in sense of n.).
Etymology
L salutatorius (as SALUTE)
THESAURUS
salutatory
address, after-dinner speech, allocution, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, eulogy, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, sales talk, salutatory address, say, screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address
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