salutatory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sa=lu=ta=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

salutatory, 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.  [1913 Webster]

salutatory, n. 

•  A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  The salutatory oration.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

salutatory, adj. & n.
--adj. of salutation.
--n. (pl. -ies) US an oration, esp. as given by a member of a graduating class, often the second-ranking member.

Derivative

salutatorian n. (in sense of n.).

Etymology

L salutatorius (as SALUTE)

THESAURUS

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