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VALEDICTORY ORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
Synonyms:
valediction; valedictory; valedictory address; valedictory oration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("valedictory oration" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))