tirade
See also: Tirade
English
Etymology
From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
tirade (plural tirades)
- A long, angry or violent speech.
- Synonyms: diatribe; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- “ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- A section of verse concerning a single theme.
- Synonym: laisse
Translations
long, angry or violent speech
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section of verse concerning a single theme
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See also
- j'accuse
- tantrum
Verb
tirade (third-person singular simple present tirades, present participle tirading, simple past and past participle tiraded)
- To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
- 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise:
- Long into the night had he tiraded, until finally, when Apt had refused to keep awake a moment longer, no matter what fascinating things the desert people were doing with preserving the dead […]
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Anagrams
- Atreid, airted, atride, tradie
French
Etymology
From tirer (“to shoot”) + -ade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.ʁad/
Audio (file)
Noun
tirade f (plural tirades)
- tirade
Further reading
- “tirade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.