[
US
/ˌvæɫəˈdɪktɝi/
]
[ UK /vˈælɪdˌɪktəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /vˈælɪdˌɪktəɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
- a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)
ADJECTIVE
-
of a speech expressing leave-taking
a valedictory address
a valedictory address -
of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell
a valedictory address
a valedictory address
a suitable valedictory gesture
valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course
How To Use valedictory In A Sentence
- In September Macmillan will retire as curator and this exhibition is something of a valedictory - a testimony to his tenure, featuring works which he has helped to acquire.
- Alas, he wrote in a valedictory note, not even the punchiest movie critic could hope to compete "with the vast advertising techniques that ensure a mass audience" for clunker after clunker. I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review
- Graduation took place on Sunday, May 21. Kelly McCarthy delivered the salutatory address and Lauren Boucher, the valedictory address.
- His comeback turns out to be a sad valedictory.
- Its melancholy cranes are lit at night not as a sign of vitality but as a valedictory salute to an industrial past for which most Glaswegians - particularly those who never banged a rivet - are nostalgic.
- Some men rested inside the reception counter and office rooms, while some others added final touches to the venue for the valedictory session.
- His valedictory speech was something of a victory. Times, Sunday Times
- The festival's valedictory function will be held on May 9.
- Historians argue over the significance of these valedictory meditations.
- The new album draws its main inspiration from the band's annual tours of the Highlands and islands, much of it - aptly enough - striking an elegiac or valedictory note.