inauguration

[ in-aw-gyuh-rey-shuh n, -guh- ]

/ ɪnˌɔ gyəˈreɪ ʃən, -gə- /

an act or ceremony of inaugurating.

Origin of inauguration

First recorded in 1560–70, inauguration is from the Late Latin word inaugurātiōn- (stem of inaugurātiō). See inaugurate, -ion.

re·in·au·gu·ra·tion, noun

inaugural inauguration

The inauguration had to be held in the fortified Kremlin, surrounded by an eerily quiet city.

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In May he attended the inauguration of a museum to house the works of the Ecuadorian painter Santiago Carbonell in Querétaro.

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How much of your family was able to see you read your poem at the inauguration?

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Since his inauguration, Republicans have criticized President Obama for everything.

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Here he is attending festivities for the first George W. Bush inauguration, along with Chuck Norris and Meatloaf.

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He died at the age of seventy-two in Tulip, near the year 1885, just before Cleveland's inauguration.

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The President's inauguration at Washington called forth a deafening demonstration.

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The whole of that is intelligible to me—and sane and rational, too—except the remark about the Inauguration of a Russian Chinese.

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We have been able to trace this mode of inauguration quite as conspicuously in young men as in young women.

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The name Anti-Federalist lost its aptness after the inauguration of the Government.

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