tirade

See also: Tirade

English

Etymology

From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

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Noun

tirade (plural tirades)

1. A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     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. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] 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.

2. A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse.

Synonyms

• (speech): diatribe, rant
• (section of verse): laisse
• See also Thesaurus:diatribe

Translations

long, angry or violent speech

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 长篇大论 (zh) (chángpiāndàlùn)

• Czech: tiráda f
• Finnish: vuodatus (fi), saarna (fi)
• French: diatribe (fr) f, tirade (fr) f
• German: Tirade (de) f
• Greek: υβρεολόγιο (el) n (yvreológio)
• Hungarian: tiráda
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• Italian: invettiva (it) f
• Maori: tūpeha, tūpehataua
• Portuguese: diatribe (pt) f
• Russian: тира́да (ru) f (tiráda)
• Slovak: tiráda
• Spanish: diatriba (es) f, invectiva (es) f, catilinaria f

section of verse concerning a single theme

• French: tirade (fr) f, laisse (fr) f
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See also

• j'accuse
• tantrum

Verb

1. 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 […]

Anagrams

• Atreid, airted, atride, tradie

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁad/

Noun

tirade f (plural tirades)

1. tirade