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UK
/ɪnˈɔːɡjʊɹəl/
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[ US /ˌɪˈnɔɡɝəɫ, ˌɪˈnɔɡjɝəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈnɔɡɝəɫ, ˌɪˈnɔɡjɝəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president)
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the ceremonial induction into a position
the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration
ADJECTIVE
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occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction
an inaugural ball
the President's inaugural address -
serving to set in motion
the initiative phase in the negotiations
his first (or maiden) speech in Congress
an initiatory step toward a treaty
the magazine's inaugural issue
the liner's maiden voyage
How To Use inaugural In A Sentence
- I. Elect and appoint the chairman or members of the presidium of inaugural meeting.
- Despite the substantial contributions he had made to topology by this time, Brouwer chose to give his inaugural professorial lecture on intuitionism and formalism.
- His first inaugural address went up to 45 per 1,000. The Times Literary Supplement
- Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.
- I chaired her inaugural meeting: health visitors, lawyers, saleswomen, cleaners, police officers; they all came. Times, Sunday Times
- Columbia University has electronic archives of the inaugural addresses of the presidents.
- And one of Australia's leading native Australian cuisine chefs will host the inaugural lemon myrtle recipe cook-off, and Howard will judge the bake-off, ‘she said.’
- Jennifer Lopez, in a strapless dress and an upswept hairstyle, waved from a balcony to admirers on the floor of Union Station at the Latino Inaugural Gala on Sunday night. Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- But most presidential inaugurals are not very good.
- And so I wrote my own inaugural address and I had these kind of sempre Sousa marches I would play to rev myself up, and then I'd -- would go off and I would give this talk. Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures