commencement ceremony

1. 1.

   an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred

   Synonymscommencementcommencement exercisegraduationgraduation exercise

   Broaderexercise

   Partsbaccalaureate

Questions about commencement ceremony

What does commencement ceremony mean?

commencement ceremony means "an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred".

What is another word for commencement ceremony?

Close synonyms include commencement, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commencement ceremony a common word?

commencement ceremony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.