valedictorian

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noun the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement

Formed 1759, from valedictory (“of a speech made when leaving”) + -an.

The son entered Yale College, and was valedictorian of his class in 1805. — McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
1813, d. 1833)[1] was born at Salem, Mass., and was the valedictorian of his class at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1832. — McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey

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