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salutatory

Syllables: sa·lu·ta·tor·yUK/səˈljuː.təˌtɜːɹ.iː/US/səˈluː.təˌtɔːɹ.iː/

salutatory adjective: characteristic of or relating to a salutation or greeting.

Adjective

salutatory (comparative more salutatory, superlative most salutatory)

  1. Characteristic of or relating to a salutation or greeting.
    • a salutatory oration
    • a salutatory editorial

Noun

salutatory (plural salutatories)

  1. (US) A greeting; an address, speech or article of greeting; the first editorial by the new editor of a newspaper or periodical; an introduction or preface.
    • She was chosen to deliver the salutatory at the commencement ceremony.
    • The first daily newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, Elizabeth Mallet, in London, March, 1702. It was called The Daily Courant. In her salutatory, Mrs. Mallet declared she had established her paper to “spare the public at least half the impertinences which the ordinary...1881, chapter 2, in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, volume 1, New York: Fowler & Wells, page 43
  2. (obsolete) A place for saluting or greeting.
    • […] coming to the Bishop with Supplication into the Salutatory, some out Porch of the Church, he was charg’d by him of tyrannicall madnes against GOD, for comming into holy ground.1641, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England, Thomas Underhill, Book 2, p. 80
    Synonyms:
    vestibule, porch

salutatory meaning in Tamil

salutatory in Tamil

வணக்கமுறை சார்ந்த

Examples of salutatory in a sentence

  • a salutatory address
  • […] a robin red-breast, winging his way from the orange and jasmine boughs of the far sweet South, rested on the ivied wall, and poured out his happy heart in a salutatory to the rising sun.1887, Augusta Jane Evans, chapter 31, in At the Mercy of Tiberius, New York: The Co-operative Publication Society, page 548:

Synonyms of salutatory

Forms of salutatory

Adjective
comparativemore salutatory
superlativemost salutatory
Noun
pluralsalutatories

Origin of salutatory

Borrowed from Latin salūtātōrius.

Words formed from salutatory

Phrases with salutatory

Questions about salutatory

What does salutatory mean?
Salutatory means characteristic of or relating to a salutation or greeting.
What is salutatory in Tamil?
Salutatory in Tamil is வணக்கமுறை சார்ந்த. See Salutatory meaning in Tamil.
How do you use salutatory in a sentence?
a salutatory address
What part of speech is salutatory?
Salutatory can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce salutatory?
Salutatory is pronounced /səˈluː.təˌtɔːɹ.iː/ (US).

Words near salutatory in the dictionary

  1. salutatorian
  2. salutatorians
  3. salutatories
  4. salutatorily
  5. salutatorium
  6. salutatory
  7. salutatory address
  8. salutatory addresses
  9. salute
  10. salute state
  11. salute states

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Adapted from Wiktionary: salutatory (page history and authors); salutatory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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