(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sort of person she seems to represent – the class valedictorian, the head cheerleader – doesn’t translate culturally particularly well.
(2) Among the volley of replies were racist cartoons and accusations she had taken “a short cut” to success and enjoyed privileges unavailable to “a white male” in Texas, where local high school valedictorians such as Lara are granted two-semesters’ free tuition to the University of Texas regardless of their immigration status.
(3) A valedictorian is usually the highest-performing student in a class who gives a farewell address at graduation.
(4) Another Texas valedictorian received a standing ovation from her classmates last week after revealing she too was undocumented during a graduation speech at Boyd High School in McKinney, in the state’s north.
(5) We had a young lady that was homeless and was the valedictorian with a 4.0 [GPA].
(6) A Texas high-school valedictorian has been thrust into the tense US immigration debate after declaring on social media she is an undocumented migrant.
(7) She was at the top of her graduating high school class, but because of her race, she was not allowed recognition as the sole valedictorian.
(8) I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted.” So here I was, sitting in my living room, asking my family a question: what if this speech, this declaration of loyalty to America, was given by an undocumented Mexican American valedictorian , a construction worker or a 22-year-old US-Dominican security guard who works at a Trump golf course ?
Valedictory
Definition:
(a.) Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
(n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Liverpool it has been a harrowing, valedictory year, the kind that deserves a send-off, and they had one here even in defeat.
(2) Italy crashed out, though Fabio Quagliarella’s valedictory lob from distance deep into injury time ensured they at least departed South Africa with a flourish.
(3) "In every business the chief executive wakes up in the morning wondering where the growth will come from," he reflected in valedictory remarks.
(4) The 87-year-old congressman, who has represented a Michigan district as a Democrat in the House of Representatives for almost six decades, has been on a valedictory tour since announcing, back in February, that he is retiring at the end of the year.
(5) In a valedictory email to stakeholders last week Karen Boswell, the outgoing managing director, trumpeted a record that saw the company garner awards and plaudits.
(6) But more than 7,000 Democrats didn’t just turn up for a valedictory fry and senatorial rally.
(7) Kreis has repeatedly insisted a decision has not been made, and his club owner Dell Loy Hansen is still publicly holding out hope that a revised, lucrative offer can keep the coach, but there was a valedictory feel to Kreis's comments at the Thursday evening press conference, when he acknowledged that ever since the final game of the season against Chivas, he's had to deal with the sensation of knowing that each game "might be the last match that I get to coach with this group," even as he insisted that "the decision has yet to be made."
(8) A less dramatic but no less important valedictory observation was made in an interview earlier in the week , when Sir Michael was asked about the pace of constant upheaval in school structures and the curriculum at the education department during his time at Ofsted: “I have learned this not just as chief inspector but also as a headteacher: that change sometimes has to be slow and incremental.” In a peripatetic political culture, that can be a hard lesson for politicians to heed.
(9) Before his retirement, Roth's mood became valedictory ( Exit Ghost , 2007) but still defiant ( Indignation , 2008).
(10) In his parliamentary valedictory speech, Hockey called for an end to “the revolving door in Australian politics” and said the Abbott government “was good at policy but struggled with politics”.
(11) Having offered his successor some beneficial advice, he gave a valedictory wave - "I wish you and the club all the best for the future" - before signing off with a defiant flourish.
(12) Byrne's brief epistle was redolent of a similar valedictory message left by Reginald Maudling to James Callaghan after Labour won a narrow victory in the 1964 general election.
(13) Coming of Age, was something of a valedictory address, not only by its dramatis personae but by Terkel himself.
(14) Several are retiring at this coming poll, and we heard their contributions in the valedictories this week.
(15) On Tuesday the BBC will broadcast his "last interview", a valedictory two-part conversation with Alan Yentob, shot at his Manhattan home in a film for Imagine , directed by Sarah Aspinall.
(16) Sir Iain Lobban, the outgoing director of Britain’s eavesdropping agency GCHQ, has used his valedictory address to deliver a full-throated defence of its activities in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations.
(17) Of course, he has given himself a hell of a send-off in this valedictory painting.
(18) Merkel and Obama developed a close working relationship and the German government sees his choice of Berlin as his final European stop on his valedictory tour as a testament to that personal bond and to Germany’s status as a bastion of relative stability on a turbulent continent.
(19) BBC director general Mark Thompson's valedictory appearance before MPs on Tuesday touched on many of the controversies of his eight years in charge – executive pay, the lack of older women on screen and the rights and wrongs of BBC1's The Voice.
(20) In days gone by, British ambassadors would wait until they were leaving before firing off a valedictory despatch that revealed what they really thought about their foreign hosts.