meaning of oration
1. An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc. ; as, Websters oration at Bunker Hill.
2. To deliver an oration.
3. an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family
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