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tirade

/taɪˈɹeɪd/US/ˈtaɪɹeɪd/

tirade noun: a long, angry or violent speech.

Noun

tirade (plural tirades)

  1. A long, angry or violent speech.
    • come out with a tirade
    • release a tirade
  2. A section of verse concerning a single theme.
    Synonyms:
    laisse

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.
    • 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 […]2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise

tirade meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

tirade in Tamil

நீள் வசவுரை

tirade in Urdu

لتاڑ

tirade in Bengali

দীর্ঘ ও ক্ষিপ্ত বক্তৃতা

tirade in Malayalam

harangue, diatribe, rant
അധിക്ഷേപഭാഷണം, നിന്ദാപ്രസംഗം, ശകാരിച്ചുകൊണ്ടുള്ള സംസാരം, നീണ്ടശകാര പ്രസംഗം, ശകാര വാഗ്ധോരണി, അപലപനം
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tirade in Kannada
ದೂಷಣ ಪರಂಪರೆ, ತೀವ್ರ ಟೀಕೆ, ದೀರ್ಘವಾದ ಉದ್ರೇಕಕಾರಿ ಭಾಷಣ, ಆಕ್ಷೇಪಕ ಭಾಷಣ

Examples of tirade in a sentence

  • a lengthy tirade against one's rivals
  • Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • “[…] 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

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Synonyms of tirade

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Forms of tirade

Noun
pluraltirades
Verb
third-person singular presenttirades
present participletirading
past participletiraded
pasttiraded

Plural of tirade: tirades

Origin of tirade

Borrowed from French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).

Words formed from tirade

Words that rhyme with tirade

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Questions about tirade

What does tirade mean?
Tirade means a long, angry or violent speech.
What is tirade in Tamil?
Tirade in Tamil is நீள் வசவுரை. See Tirade meaning in Tamil.
How do you use tirade in a sentence?
a lengthy tirade against one's rivals
What part of speech is tirade?
Tirade can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tirade?
Tirade is pronounced /taɪˈɹeɪd/ (UK).
What is the plural of tirade?
The plural of tirade is tirades.

Words near tirade in the dictionary

  1. tiquinamide
  2. TIR
  3. Tir-Phil
  4. Tira
  5. tiracizine
  6. tirade
  7. tiraded
  8. tirades
  9. tirading
  10. tiradito
  11. tiraditos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tirade (page history and authors); tirade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tirade (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tirade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tirade (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); tirade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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