1. (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

• address
• speech

1. (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

• declamation
• epideictic oratory
• keynote address
• keynote speech
• nominating address
• nominating speech
• nomination
• oration
• salutatory
• salutatory address
• salutatory oration
• stump speech
• valediction
• valedictory
• valedictory address
• valedictory oration

1. (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

• oratorical