tirade

ti·rade

T0231100 (tī′rād′, tī-rād′)n. A long angry speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe.

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[French, from Old French, act of firing, from tirer, to draw out, endure, probably back-formation from martirant, present participle of martirer, to torture (influenced by mar, to one's misfortune, tiranz, executioner, tyrant), from martir, martyr, from Late Latin martyr; see martyr.]

tirade

(taɪˈreɪd) n1. a long angry speech or denunciation2. (Poetry) prosody rare a speech or passage dealing with a single theme[C19: from French, literally: a pulling, from Italian tirata, from tirare to pull, of uncertain origin]

ti•rade

(ˈtaɪ reɪd, taɪˈreɪd)

n. 1. a prolonged outburst of bitter denunciation. 2. a long, vehement speech. 3. a passage dealing with a single theme, as in poetry: the stately tirades of Corneille. [1795–1805; < French: literally, a stretch, (continuous) pulling < Italian tirata, n. use of feminine of tirato, past participle of tirare to draw, pull < Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of obscure orig.]

Tirade

 an outburst of speech, 1801.Examples: tirade of infamous falsehoods, 1818; of bombastic nonsense, 1858; of words, 1801.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

tirade - a speech of violent denunciation philippic, broadsidedenouncement, denunciation - a public act of denouncingdeclamation - vehement oratory

tirade

noun outburst, diatribe, harangue, abuse, lecture, denunciation, invective, fulmination, philippic She launched into a tirade against the authorities.

tirade

nounA long, violent, or blustering speech, usually of censure or denunciation:diatribe, fulmination, harangue, jeremiad, philippic.

Translations

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