tirade

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

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

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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

• j'accuse
• tantrum

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:

     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 […]

• Atreid, airted, atride, tradie

From tirer (“to shoot”) +‎ -ade.

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁad/

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tirade f (plural tirades)

1. tirade

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

tirade

1. second-person plural imperative of tirar