keynote address

keynote address

n.

An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech.

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Noun

1.

keynote address - a speech setting forth the keynote keynote speech keynote - the principal theme in a speech or literary work oratory - addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"