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Word definitions for inaugural in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sb's inaugural speech (= their first one in an important political job ) ▪ He said all the right things in his inaugural speech. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN address ▪ She game her first inaugural address at ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated. 2 Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc. n. 1 An inauguration; a formal beginning. 2 A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from French inaugural (17c.), from inaugurer "to inaugurate" (see inauguration ). The noun meaning "an inaugural address" is recorded from 1832, American English.
Usage examples of inaugural.
With the crowd in raptures, cannon pounding, church bells clanging, Washington bowed still again and then, Adams at his side, moved back to deliver his inaugural address to a seated Congress.
ON MONDAY, March 4, 1793, in an inaugural ceremony of record brevity, Adams looked on respectfully as Washington took the oath of office.
Long a man of decided temperament, Adams was as determined as he had ever been to maintain the policy of neutrality established by Washington, while refusing to submit to any indignities or to sacrifice American honor--he was determined, in essence, to fulfill his own inaugural promises.
The eminent artist Georges Boulonnais is about to have his inaugural Scottish exhibition next Saturday evening.
One of the key British advisers asked Maliki if he would like help writing his inaugural address.
He went on to reveal the threats Agrippina had made at his inaugural banquet.
Johnny Gentle, managing somehow to look presidential in a Fukoama microfiltration mask, whose Inaugural Address heralded the advent of a Tighter, Tidier Nation.
It appeared that Meadows was summoning all hands in order to address them in an inaugural speech.
Within months of its inaugural, the sparse Palmetto had attracted a bottling plant, three industrial parks, a machine shop, a metal shop, and a tractor plant.
His first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, was published in 1996 to popular and critical acclaim, and won the inaugural First Blood Award for the best first crime novel of the year.
And Hillary had a special friend: Harry Thomason, the Hollywood producer of Designing Women and Evening Shade, who produced many of the ads and videos for Bill Clinton's campaigns, choreographed the 1992 Democratic convention, and handled the pomp and ceremony of the Clintons' inaugural.
As predicted, old Washington was boycotting the ball, while most of the Southern congressional had either gone home to their seceded states or declined to attend the Inaugural Ball as they had declined to attend the inauguration itself.
Jefferson said famously in his inaugural address before a full Senate Chamber, his voice so soft many had difficulty hearing him.
Architecturally, its plain facade and straight lines echoed the gown Eleanor Roosevelt wore to the inaugural ball, while its interior walls still reproduced faithfully the hues of the split pea mush dished up in hundreds of soup kitchens.
He now reminds you that you are under oath -- sworn to him at your inaugural -- to uphold the Constitution, and that you must see to it that the laws, and the Chief Justice, are obeyed.