tirade en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/ (General-American)
- (UK) audio
- /tɪˈɹeɪd/ (UK)
- /taɪˈɹeɪd/ (UK)
- /tɪˈɹɑːd/ (obsolete)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *der-der. Proto-Germanic *teranąbor.? Vulgar Latin *tīrāre Old French tirer Middle French tirer French tirer Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -atader. Occitan -adader. French -ade French tiradebor. English tirade Borrowed from French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).
Meanings
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A long, angry or violent speech.
come out with a tirade
release a tirade
“[…] 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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.
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:
- A section of verse concerning a single theme.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tirades | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
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Synonyms
laisse · harangue · tirade · dithyramb · screed · slanging match · diatribe · diatribe · admonition · j'accuse · rant · condemnation · polemic · philippic · impugnation · jeremiad
Translations (25)
mi tūpehataua (long, angry or violent speech) · cs tiráda (long, angry or violent speech) · fi vuodatus (long, angry or violent speech) · bg тира́да (long, angry or violent speech) · hu tiráda (long, angry or violent speech) · nl tirade (long, angry or violent speech) · es catilinaria (long, angry or violent speech) · fr tirade (section of verse concerning a single theme) · da tirade (long, angry or violent speech) · fr diatribe (long, angry or violent speech) · fr tirade (long, angry or violent speech) · fi saarna (long, angry or violent speech) · tr tirat (long, angry or violent speech) · el υβρεολόγιο (long, angry or violent speech) · hu szóáradat (long, angry or violent speech) · it invettiva (long, angry or violent speech) · cmn 长篇大论 (long, angry or violent speech) · ru тира́да (long, angry or violent speech) · sk tiráda (long, angry or violent speech) · fr laisse (section of verse concerning a single theme) · es invectiva (long, angry or violent speech) · pt diatribe (long, angry or violent speech) · es diatriba (long, angry or violent speech) · mi tūpeha (long, angry or violent speech) · de Tirade (long, angry or violent speech)