VALEDICTORY ORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valedictory oration mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALEDICTORY ORATION (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 oration" is a kind of...):

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