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salutatorian

noun
/səˌljuː.təˈtɔːɹ.iː.ən//səˌluː.təˈtɔːɹ.iː.ən/US/səˌljuː.təˈtɔːɹ.iː.ən/UK

Etymology

From salutatory + -an.

  1. borrowed from salūtātōrius
  2. formed as salutatorian — “salutatory + -an”

Definitions

  1. The person who graduates high school with the second-highest GPA and thus gets to give…

    The person who graduates high school with the second-highest GPA and thus gets to give the salutatory address during the graduation ceremony.

    • He was the salutatorian of his high school class (a sore subject, his sister said, since So thought he missed the top spot on a technicality), and entered Stanford intending to major in computer science.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA