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say it: val-uh-dik-TAW-ree-uhn
valedictorian is a noun meaning "the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement". It is pronounced /ˌvæləˌdɪkˈtɔɹiən/ — val-uh-dik-TAW-ree-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for valedictorian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.