Oration

/ɔːɹˈe‍ɪʃən/

/ɔˈɹeɪʃən/

Oration

a formal speech delivered with eloquence and skill, usually given on a special occasion or to honor a specific person or event

Examples

1. Give an appreciation oration.

2. Pericles’s funeral oration comes from a later war, The Peloponnesian War, a thirty year conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans.

3. Those funerals, those orations on Easter Sunday left a powerful impression.

4. But that myth appears in Demosthenes funeral oration.