keynote address

noun

: an address designed to present the issues of primary interest to an assembly (such as a political convention) and often to arouse unity and enthusiasm

called also keynote speech

Examples of keynote address in a Sentence

Many of the convention guests left after the keynote address.

Recent Examples on the Web

Brenner spoke Tuesday with Leo Barraclough, Variety‘s international features director, in the keynote address on Day 2 of the Mipcom content market. —Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025

The artificial intelligence startup announced releases such as App SDK, AgentKit, ChatKit and Codex during the keynote address. —Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025

During his 23-minute keynote address at the flagship Alibaba Cloud conference, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu charted out a future featuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI). —Jared Perlo, NBC news, 4 Oct. 2025

While Amon’s keynote address in Maui imagined a future with numerous AI agents working on-device, the current reality is more modest. —IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1863, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for keynote address

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Kids Definition

keynote address

noun

: the main speech given at a gathering (as a political convention)