tirade

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/taɪˈɹeɪd/(UK)
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/taɪˈɹeɪd/(UK) · /tɪˈɹeɪd/(UK) · /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/ · /tɪˈɹɑːd/

Definition of tirade

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A long, angry or violent speech.
    “come out with a tirade”
    “release a tirade”
    “a lengthy tirade against one's rivals”
    “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.”
    ““[…] 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.”
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noun

  1. A long, angry or violent speech.
    “come out with a tirade”
    “release a tirade”
    “a lengthy tirade against one's rivals”
    “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.”
    ““[…] 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.

verb

  1. To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
    “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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Etymology

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

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