WordNet
commencement ceremony
n. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred [syn: commencement, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise]
Usage examples of "commencement ceremony".
All the other graduation events had been canceled, but the commencement ceremony itself was set to go on as planned.
We had a nice commencement ceremony with everyone in our eight-pounds-of-gold uniforms, and they handed out illuminated certificates to us with our friends and parents watching.
The City of Syracuse scheduled testimony to begin on May 17, the same day as my sister's commencement ceremony at Penn.