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salutatorian
[ suh-loo-tuh-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr- ]
noun
- (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
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INSIDER TIP: Head downtown for salutatorian Fusion Taco, another food truck turned brick-and-mortar.
A scholar-athlete, he was salutatorian in his graduating class.
But Bettie, with a 97.19 average, was beat out by .14 points, and had to settle for Salutatorian status.
All the salutatorian had to do was to sit still and hear what the other speakers had to say and feel good.
May 29, 1884, he graduated from the Atlanta Baptist College as salutatorian.
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