Noun

• S: (n) oration (an instance of oratory) "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
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• S: (n) oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)) "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
• S: (n) keynote speech, keynote address (a speech setting forth the keynote)
• S: (n) nominating speech, nominating address, nomination (an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election) "the nomination was brief and to the point"
• S: (n) oration (an instance of oratory) "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
• S: (n) declamation (vehement oratory)
• S: (n) epideictic oratory (a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people) "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory"
• S: (n) stump speech (political oratory)
• S: (n) salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory (an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises))
• S: (n) valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory (a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class))