SALUTATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salutatory mean? 

• SALUTATORY (noun)
  The noun SALUTATORY has 1 sense:

1. an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises)

  Familiarity information: SALUTATORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALUTATORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

salutatory; salutatory address; salutatory oration

Hypernyms ("salutatory" is a kind of...):

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