tirade

[ tahy-reyd, tahy-reyd ]
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noun
  1. a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation: a tirade against smoking.

  2. a long, vehement speech: a tirade in the Senate.

  1. a passage dealing with a single theme or idea, as in poetry: the stately tirades of Corneille.

Origin of tirade

1
1795–1805; <French: literally, a stretch, (continuous) pulling <Italian tirata, noun use of feminine of tirato, past participle of tirare to draw, pull, fire (a shot), of obscure origin

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tirade

/ (taɪˈreɪd) /


noun
  1. a long angry speech or denunciation

  2. prosody rare a speech or passage dealing with a single theme

Origin of tirade

1
C19: from French, literally: a pulling, from Italian tirata, from tirare to pull, of uncertain origin

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