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SALUTATORY SPEAKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does salutatory speaker mean?
• SALUTATORY SPEAKER (noun)
The noun SALUTATORY SPEAKER has 1 sense:
1. a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises
Familiarity information: SALUTATORY SPEAKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
salutatorian; salutatory speaker
Hypernyms ("salutatory speaker" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
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