salutatory speaker

1. 1.

   a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises

   Synonymssalutatorian

   Broaderscholar

Questions about salutatory speaker

What does salutatory speaker mean?

salutatory speaker means "a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises".

What is another word for salutatory speaker?

Close synonyms include salutatorian. 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 salutatory speaker a common word?

salutatory speaker 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.