tirade

See also: Tirade

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /taɪˈɹeɪd/, /tɪˈɹeɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

tirade (plural tirades)

1. 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:

     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:

     “ […] 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.

   Synonym: laisse

Translations

long, angry or violent speech

• Bulgarian: тира́да (bg) f (tiráda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 长篇大论 (zh) (chángpiāndàlùn)

• Czech: tiráda (cs) f
• Dutch: tirade (nl)
• Finnish: vuodatus (fi), saarna (fi)
• French: diatribe (fr) f, tirade (fr) f
• German: Tirade (de) f
• Greek: υβρεολόγιο (el) n (yvreológio)
• Hungarian: tiráda (hu), szóáradat (hu)
• 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 (es) f
• Turkish: tirat (tr)

section of verse concerning a single theme

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

See also

• j'accuse
• tantrum

Verb

tirade (third-person singular simple present tirades, present participle tirading, simple past and past participle tiraded)

1. To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
   • 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise‎^[1]:

     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

French

Etymology

From tirer (“to shoot”) +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁad/

• Audio:

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Noun

tirade f (plural tirades)

1. tirade

Further reading

• “tirade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

tirade

1. second-person plural imperative of tirar