Definitions for valedictories

valedictories val·e·dic·to·ry

Spelling: [val-i-dik-tuh-ree]
IPA: /ˌvæl ɪˈdɪk tə ri/

Valedictories is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 2829 anagrams from letters in valedictories (acdeeiilorstv).

Definitions for valedictories

noun

  1. an address or oration delivered at the commencement exercises of a college or school on behalf of the graduating class.
  2. any farewell address or oration.

adjective

  1. bidding goodbye; saying farewell:
  2. of or relating to an occasion of leave-taking:

Origin of valedictories

1645-55; Latin valedict(us) (see valediction) + -ory1

Examples for valedictories

A valedictory is a public farewell to a company or assembly.

It was her wish that Miss Morton should be chosen to deliver the valedictory.

And might not her letter, when it did come, be a valedictory?

The congresswoman ended her valedictory to a man she described as “our icon” by saying “Michael Jackson, I salute you.”

This concession speech was both a tribute to his opponent and a valedictory to his lifetime of service to the country.

She, herself, confessed it in the valedictory words she addressed to me.

"My beliefs can matter nothing," he compromised, and made her a valedictory bow.

Lou's valedictory has been acclaimed, without sarcasm, as baseball's Gettysburg Address.

But there his common sense left him and he made a valedictory speech.

He was graduated in 1828, on which occasion he delivered the valedictory oration.

Word Value for valedictories
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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