Definitions

valediction

[val-i-dik-shuhn] / ˌvæl ɪˈdɪk ʃən /

NOUN

parting

Synonyms

STRONG

adieu bisection break breaking breakup crossroads departure detachment divergence division farewell going goodbye leave-taking partition rift rupture severance split

WEAK

split-up

Antonyms

STRONG

accord agreement attachment closing closure combination connection continuation greeting harmony hello juncture union unity

Example Sentences

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The service will end with the final commendation and valediction, marking the beginning of nine days of mourning for the Pope, the Catholic news agency reported.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

What’s unclear is whether this is the valediction of that career, or something that propels him back into the presidential conversation going forward.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025

This record and tour are by no means a last valediction to her music career.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024

As a young postdoctoral student, David McKay was in the audience at Rice University in September 1962 when JFK had given his famous "We choose to go to the Moon" valediction.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2020

There were more prayers, a psalm, the Lord’s Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Vocabulary lists containing valediction

Things Fall Apart

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Atonement

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