VALEDICTORY ADDRESS

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does valedictory address mean? 

• VALEDICTORY ADDRESS (noun)
  The noun VALEDICTORY ADDRESS has 1 sense:

1. a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)

  Familiarity information: VALEDICTORY ADDRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALEDICTORY ADDRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

valediction; valedictory; valedictory address; valedictory oration

Hypernyms ("valedictory address" is a kind of...):

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