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Inaugural

Inaugural Meaning & Definition
Inaugural Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inaugural?

[n] the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration"
[n] an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a US president)
[adj] serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
[adj] occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inaugural: first | inaugural address | inauguration | initiative | initiatory | maiden | opening

Related Terms | Find terms related to Inaugural: abecedarian | aboriginal | address | advanced | after-dinner speech | allocution | antecedent | antenatal | anterior | autochthonous | avant-garde | baccalaureate service | beginning | budding | celebration | ceremonial | ceremony | chalk talk | chief | commencement | convocation | creative | debate | declamation | diatribe | elemental | elementary | embryonic | empty formality | eulogy | exercise | exercises | exhortation | exordial | exploratory | fetal | filibuster | first | foremost | forensic | forensic address | formal | formal speech | formality | formative | foundational | function | fundamental | funeral oration | gestatory | graduation | graduation exercises | harangue | headmost | hortatory address | in embryo | in its infancy | in the bud | inaugural address | inauguration | inceptive | inchoate | inchoative | incipient | incunabular | induction | infant | infantile | initial | initiation | initiative | initiatory | installation | introductory | invective | inventive | investiture | jeremiad | leading | liturgy | mummery | nascent | natal | observance | office | oration | original | parturient | pep talk | performance | peroration | philippic | pitch | postnatal | precedent | preceding | precessional | precursory | prefatory | pregnant | preliminary | preludial | prelusive | prenatal | preparatory | prepared speech | prepared text | prevenient | primal | primary | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | prior | procreative | proemial | propaedeutic | public speech | reading | recital | recitation | religious ceremony | rite | rite de passage | rite of passage | ritual | rudimental | rudimentary | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | service | set speech | solemnity | solemnization | speech | speechification | speeching | talk | talkathon | tirade | ur | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address

See Also | address | inaugural | inaugural | inaugural address | inauguration | induction | initiation | installation | speech

Inaugural In Webster's Dictionary

\In*au"gu*ral\, a. [Cf. F. inaugural.] Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.
\In*au"gu*ral\, n. An inaugural address. [U.S.]

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