Crossword clues for valedictory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Valedictory \Val`e*dic"to*ry\, a. Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
Valedictory \Val`e*dic"to*ry\, n.; pl. Valedictories. A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "pertaining or relating to leave-taking," from Latin valedictum (past participle of valedicere; see valediction) + -ory. As a noun meaning "valedictory address" from 1779.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or pertaining to, a valedictorian. 2 Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking. n. 1 A speech given by a valedictorian at a graduation or commencement ceremony. 2 A farewell or parting address.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell; "a valedictory address"; "valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course"; "a suitable valedictory gesture"
of a speech expressing leave-taking; "a valedictory address"
n. a farewell oration delivered by the most outstanding member of a graduating class [syn: valediction, valedictory address]
Usage examples of "valedictory".
When we were as I judged out of assegai shot, I turned, with the water up to my armpits, and shouted some valedictory words.
Even in this bizarre corner of her Guernsey life there was no escape from the valedictory glow.
Back home, there followed a detailed bout of valedictory lovemaking, with Selina game and longsuffering, and me as effusively carnal as ever.
Vaughn was proud of himself as he sat there and listened to Howard give the valedictory address at high school graduation.
At the lectern stood the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, bringing his valedictory address to a close.
In his Valedictory Address, given to a packed audience in Merton College Hall at the end of his final summer term, Tolkien touched on some of the changes that were taking place in Oxford.
The valedictory address of President Washington, as conveying political lessons of peculiar value.
It was in effect a valedictory address in the heartland urging continued American leadership in the world beyond our borders.
He had graduated first in his law class at Princeton in 1968, delivered the valedictory address and had been running ever since.