Usually means: Concluding part of a speech.
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  1. peroration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peroration: Merriam-Webster
  3. peroration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peroration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Peroration, peroration: Wordnik
  6. peroration: Wiktionary
  7. peroration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. peroration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. peroration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Peroration, peroration: Dictionary.com
  11. peroration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Peroration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Peroration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. peroration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. peroration: Rhymezone
  16. Peroration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. peroration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. peroration: FreeDictionary.org
  19. peroration: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. peroration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. peroration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. peroration: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peroration: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peroration: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.
▸ noun:  A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.

Similar:
outroduction, postamble, epilogue, conclusion, enumeration, wrap-up, concluding, last word, ending, wrapping up, more...

Opposite:
exordium, introduction, opening statement

Types:
conclusion, end, summing up, closing, more...

Adjectives:
eloquent, final, famous, long, fine, magnificent, splendid, grand, brilliant, stirring, brief

Colors:
    crimson,     gold,     scarlet,     indigo,     emerald, more...
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Similar:
outroduction, postamble, epilogue, conclusion, enumeration, wrap-up, concluding, last word, ending, wrapping up, more...

Opposite:
exordium, introduction, opening statement

Types:
conclusion, end, summing up, closing, more...

Adjectives:
eloquent, final, famous, long, fine, magnificent, splendid, grand, brilliant, stirring, brief

Colors:
    crimson,     gold,     scarlet,     indigo,     emerald, more...



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