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Saying goodbye — but only the formal, ceremonial kind. A valedictory speech is the speech someone gives when they are leaving a school, a job, a team, or an office, usually at a ceremony, usually with people sitting and listening. It is almost always used before a noun: a valedictory speech, a valedictory address, a valedictory letter, a valedictory tour. You can also use it as a noun on its own — 'she gave a moving valedictory' — meaning the goodbye speech itself. The feeling of the word is formal and a bit grand. Nobody says it when they leave the office at six o'clock. It is for the goodbye that everyone knows is a goodbye, the one that gets planned. Writers stretch it a little: a singer's last album can be called valedictory, a politician's last interview can have a valedictory tone, meaning it sounds like a person looking back and saying farewell. When people use it that way, they often mean it is a bit sad, a bit warm, and aware that something is ending for good. In American schools there is a closely related word, valedictorian — the top student, who gives the goodbye speech at graduation. That is a different word, but it comes from the same idea, and knowing that usually makes valedictory easy to remember.
告別的、臨別的（演說）；告別詞。多用在畢業典禮、卸任、離職這種正式場合的「臨別致詞」。
組成From Latin: valē 'be well, farewell' (the command form of valeō 'to be strong, to be well') + dīcō 'to say' + -ory 'having to do with'. So literally: having to do with saying 'be well' — a goodbye said out loud.
同家族的字
- valedictoriansame valē + dīcō — the student who says the farewell
- dictionaryshares Latin dīcō 'to say'
- dictateshares Latin dīcō 'to say'
- predictshares Latin dīcō — to say beforehand
- valueshares Latin valeō 'to be strong, be worth'
- validshares Latin valeō 'to be strong'
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
valedictoryadj/ˌvælɪˈdɪktəɹi/
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Of or pertaining to a valediction (“an act of parting company; a speech made when parting company”); designed for or suitable to an occasion of bidding farewell or parting company.
- a valedictory oration
- Supp'd at Mr. Edwᵈ Sheldon's, where was Mr. [John] Dryden the Poet, who now intended to write no more Plays, being intent on his Translation of Virgil. He read to us his Prologue and Epilogue to his valedictory Play, now shortly to be acted.
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Of or pertaining to a valedictorian (“the individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades”).
- The first was Larissa Martinez, who divulged her undocumented status during her valedictory speech and told the crowd at her McKinney, Texas, high school graduation she would be attending Yale University with a financial aid package in the fall.
valedictorynoun/ˌvælɪˈdɪktəɹi/
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An address given on an occasion of bidding farewell or parting company.
- [Jean-Claude] Juncker gave an emotional valedictory. When he stopped speaking, an Italian journalist stood up. "History will judge you, Mr Juncker," the journalist said solemnly, "but we will never forget you" before urging a round of applause for the Luxembourger's "30 years as a true European".
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A speech given by a valedictorian at a commencement or graduation ceremony.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。