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SALUTATORY ORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises)
Synonyms:
salutatory; salutatory address; salutatory oration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("salutatory oration" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))