valedictorian
IPA: væɫʌdɪktˈɔriʌn
noun
- (US, Canada, properly) The individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell or valedictory address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades.
- (US, Canada, colloquial) The individual in a graduating class who graduates with the highest grades.
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Examples of "valedictorian" in Sentences
- He is also the class valedictorian.
- He was the valedictorian of the class.
- She was the Valedictorian of her graduating class.
- Barbosa graduated valedictorian of the class of 1880.
- He graduated in 1791 as the valedictorian of his class.
- She was a the valedictorian of her class, and the only woman.
- Really, a white student, but a valedictorian, that is until now.
- Henry Hobart and graduated in 1809 as the valedictorian of his class.
- He was the valedictorian of his class, and played basketball in high school.
- He was valedictorian of the Massachusetts Agricultural College class of 1875.
- He was the valedictorian of his graduating class in the College of Agriculture.
- Traditionally, in Vimy-Ridge-Canada, the valedictorian is the student in the graduating class with the highest marks.
- Anyway, the reason I came to the word valedictorian today puts the lie to a valedictorian being the loneliest kid in the class.
- It perked up his ears because he'd sort of assumed the very word valedictorian encapsulated a meaning of a "single individual."
- It was this question and others that led me to approach the administration to ask how valedictorian is determined, and what I learned is there are no written policies.
- This is the place where I resisted the enormous temptation to explain to him what he probably should already know as valedictorian of his high school class --- that intellect is not an inherited characteristic.
- The original meaning of the word "valedictorian" refers to bidding farewell, not to the rank of the student giving the address, but over the years, Brennan said, people have lost sight of the true meaning of the distinction.
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