| Salutatory 1. (n.) A welcoming or greeting a commencement exercises in American colleges. 2. (n.) A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch. 3. (n.) The salutatory oration. Thesaurus Entries 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 |