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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 exercisesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SALUTATORY SPEAKER (noun)


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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