salutatory

noun

Definition of salutatorynext
as in lecture

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  1. lecture
  2. eulogy
  3. tribute
  4. panegyric
  5. keynote address
  6. sermon
Noun
  • The museum also hosts workshops, lectures, and performances and is planning an exhibition on the workings of quantum physics for next year.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of lecture
Noun
  • The station then aired a one-minute video tribute to Radcliffe that included highlights of his career and a voice-over eulogy.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The dead include Ibrahim Aqil, a close adviser to Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and a senior commander who, in 2008, founded the élite Radwan Force, according to the group’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, who delivered a eulogy at Aqil’s funeral on Sunday afternoon.
    Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of eulogy
Noun
  • There was a Beatles medley to represent the ’60s, a Huey Lewis and the News tribute for the ’80s and a bit of Taylor Swift to bring us up to date.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The attention to detail in the packaging, along with the tribute to Basquiat’s visual language, aims to create a cohesive connection between the art and the champagne.
    Rachel King, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of tribute
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  • Buckley’s magazine, National Review, the flagship of the movement, published regular panegyrics to anti-communist generalissimos, heaping adoration on the likes of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain’s Francisco Franco.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For example, Kenneth Khachigian, chief speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a panegyric about her for The Wall Street Journal, which went so far as to compare her to the Gipper.
    Robert Robb, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
Definition of panegyric
Noun
  • Ahead of Tuesday’s keynote address, Harris sat for five local news interviews Tuesday targeting voters across the battlegrounds in places like Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
    Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The Sorkin adaptation the film feels tonally closest to, though, is 2015’s Steve Jobs, which plays out largely in the moments leading up to three of Jobs’s most famous keynote addresses.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of keynote address
Noun
  • Slate says that, in 1905, an issue of The Cambrian, a magazine for Welsh Americans, featured an anecdote involving a priest who, following a service, pulled a clerk aside to ask whether his sermon had been long enough.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Stanley addressed Mohler near the beginning of his sermon.
    John Blake, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of sermon
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