salutatory

salutatory
    n 1: an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered
         at graduation exercises) [syn: {salutatory address},
         {salutatory oration}, {salutatory}]
    

Salutatory \Sa*lu"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. salutatorius. See {Salute}.]
   Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome;
   greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which
   introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar
   public exhibitions, in American colleges.
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Salutatory \Sa*lu"ta*to*ry\, n.
   1. A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
      [Obs.] --Milton.
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   2. (American Colleges) The salutatory oration.
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "salutatory":
      address, after-dinner speech, allocution, chalk talk, debate,
      declamation, diatribe, eulogy, exhortation, filibuster, forensic,
      forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue,
      hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective,
      jeremiad, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch,
      prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital,
      recitation, sales talk, salutatory address, say, screed,
      set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon,
      tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address