tirade (redirected from tirades)

ti·rade  (trd, t-rd)

n.

A long angry or violent 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,, and tiranz, executioner, tyrant), from martir, martyr, from Late Latin martyr; see martyr.]

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tirade

Noun

a long angry speech or denunciation [French]

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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, broadside denouncement, denunciation - a public act of denouncing declamation - vehement oratory

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tirade

noun outburst, diatribe, harangue, abuse, lecture, denunciation, invective, fulmination, philippic

Translations

tirade [taɪˈreɪd] n → diatriba

tirade [taɪˈreɪd] n → diatribe f

tirade [taɪˈreɪd] n → Tirade f

tirade [taɪˈreɪd] n → filippica