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UK
/vˌælɪdɪktˈɔːɹiən/
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[ US /ˌvæɫəˌdɪkˈtɔɹiən/ ]
[ US /ˌvæɫəˌdɪkˈtɔɹiən/ ]
NOUN
- the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement
How To Use valedictorian In A Sentence
- I showed up at West Point and found that 60% of my classmates were team captains, and 20% were valedictorians.
- More than 50 years after graduating, the class valedictorian gets her long delayed moment of glory.
- Pat was the president of the class and a school valedictorian.
- Highlights here include "A Sort of Loving" (where "rapping about dope" becomes a gateway to more insightful conversation), "I Hate You, Silas Marner" (which uses the title tome as a contrast with Joseph Heller's counterculture war hit), and "The Valedictorian" (an attempt to reconfigure recent student uprisings and nonconformity into the half hour TV setting). DVD Verdict
- One of my most prized possessions is a complete collection of Shakespeare that was given to my mother as her high school valedictorian present by her book-loving father, the year before he died. The Quality of Meter
- My brother and sister graduated salutatorian and valedictorian of their high school classes while I managed to coast along with an average slightly above a 'B' effort was not my strong suit in high school. Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother'
- My brother Charles, though valedictorian of his high school class, never had an opportunity to go on to college.
- He graduated valedictorian from his high school class.
- Sometimes the valedictorian or salutatorian of our senior class is one such student. Larry Strauss: Let's Honor All Our Honors Students -- Regardless of Where They Were Born or How They Got Here
- When the band stopped playing, and Ellen, who as valedictorian came last as the crown and capsheaf of it all, stepped forward from the semicircle of white-clad girls and seriously abashed boys, there was The Portion of Labor