SALUTATORY ADDRESS

 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 address" is a kind of...):

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

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