FromFrenchtirade(“monologue, speech, tirade”).
tirade (pluraltirades)
- A long,angry orviolentspeech.
- Synonyms:diatribe;see alsoThesaurus:diatribe
1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:Mr. Cooke at once began atirade 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, inThe 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 atirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- A section ofverse concerning a singletheme.
- Synonym:laisse
long, angry or violent speech
section of verse concerning a single theme
tirade (third-person singular simple presenttirades,present participletirading,simple past and past participletiraded)
- To make a long,angry orviolentspeech, a tirade.
2009, Megan Greenberg,The Orser's Promise[1]:Long into the night had hetiraded, 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[…]
ViaFrenchtirade,Italiantirata.
tirade c (singular definitetiraden,plural indefinitetirader)
- atirade,rant,incoherentword salad
- Synonyms:ordskvalder,ordgyderi
Fromtirer(“toshoot”) +-ade.
tirade f (pluraltirades)
- tirade
tirade
- second-personpluralimperative oftirar
