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valedictory
| valedictory address
| valedictory oration
| valedictory speaker
| valence
| valence electron
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valedictory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun valedictory has 1 sense
- valedictory(n = noun.communication) valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration - a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class); Array is a kind of oratory
Derived forms adjective valedictory2, adjective valedictory1
Adjective valedictory has 2 senses
- valedictory(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell; "a valedictory address"; "valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course"; "a suitable valedictory gesture" Derived form noun valedictory1
- valedictory(s = adj.all) Array - of a speech expressing leave-taking; "a valedictory address" Derived form noun valedictory1
CIDE DICTIONARY
valedictory, a.
Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration. [1913 Webster]
valedictory, n.
A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
valedictory, adj. & n.
--adj. serving as a farewell.
--n. (pl. -ies) a farewell address.
--adj. serving as a farewell.
--n. (pl. -ies) a farewell address.
THESAURUS
valedictory
Godspeed, address, adieu, after-dinner speech, allocution, aloha, chalk talk, conge, debate, declamation, departing, diatribe, doch-an-dorrach, eulogy, exhortation, farewell, filibuster, final, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, good-bye, harangue, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, last, leave, leave-taking, leaving, oration, outward-bound, parting, parting words, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, send-off, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, stirrup cup, talk, talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory address, viaticumROGET THESAURUS
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Departure
N departure, decession, decampment, embarkation, outset, start, removal, exit, exodus, hejira, flight, leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista, stirrup cup, valedictorian, starting point, starting post, point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation, port of embarkation, airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport, departing, valedictory, outward bound, whence, hence, thence, with a foot in the stirrup, on the wing, on the move, Int, begone!, farewell!, adieu!, goodbye!, good day!, au revoir!, fare you well!, God bless you!, God speed!, all aboard!, auf wiedersehen!, au plaisir de vous revoir!, bon voyage!, gluckliche Reise!, vive valeque!.
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