Definition of "keynote address" []

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

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• "The reporter asked if the keynote address by New York congress-woman Susan Molinari the previous evening—it had featured images of her own daughter and her wish that the girl grow up in a world made safer by Bob Dole—had compelled Liz to want to vote for Dole."
• "This article was adapted from the keynote address of the same name presented at the thirteenth Annual ADEC conference in 1991."
• "In 1991, at the thirteenth annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Therese Rando, the psychologist in private practice in Rhode Island who invented the six Rs of grief, gave a keynote address titled “The Increasing Prevalence of Complicated Mourning: The Onslaught Is Just Beginning.”"