INAUGURAL - Definition

Meaning of INAUGURAL

Pronunciation:		in'ogyurul
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[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"

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	Synonyms:	first, inaugural address, inauguration, initiative, initiatory, maiden, opening

	Antonyms:	exaugural

	See Also:	address, inaugural, inaugural, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, speech

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Inau"gural\, a. [Cf. F. inaugural.] Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. \Inau"gural\, n. An inaugural address. [U.S.]

Thesaurus Terms

	Related Terms:	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

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