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Word Meanings - VALEDICTORIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.

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  • CLASSIFIC
    Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
  • CLASSIFICATORY
    Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
  • CLASSICISM
    A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
  • FIRST
    Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
  • ANNUALIST
    One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
  • CLASSIS
    An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
  • GRADUATOR
    1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments. 2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals. 3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over
  • AMERICANIZATION
    The process of Americanizing.
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
  • CLASSMATE
    One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
  • ANNUAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the
  • AMERICAN
    1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
  • ADDRESS
    To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
  • AMERICANISM
    1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
  • GRADUATED
    Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
  • AMERICAN PLAN
    In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
  • STUDENTRY
    A body of students.
  • STUDENT
    1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a
  • FIRST-CLASS
    Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
  • CLASSIC
    1. A work of acknowledged excellence and authrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate
  • SEMIANNUALLY
    Every half year.
  • SECOND-CLASS
    Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

 

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