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English noun: peroration

1. peroration (communication) a flowery and highly rhetorical oration


Broader (hypernym)oration

2. peroration (communication) (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration


SamplesHe summarized his main points in his peroration.


Broader (hypernym)close, closing, conclusion, end, ending


Part meronymoration


Domain categoryrhetoric









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