tirade









tirade


noun

  1. a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation: a tirade against smoking.
  2. a long, vehement speech: a tirade in the Senate.
  3. a passage dealing with a single theme or idea, as in poetry: the stately tirades of Corneille.

noun

  1. a long angry speech or denunciation
  2. prosody rare a speech or passage dealing with a single theme

n.1801, “a ‘volley of words,’ ” from French tirade “speech, volley, shot, continuation, drawing out” (16c.), from tirer “draw out, endure, suffer,” or the French word is perhaps from cognate Italian tirata “a volley,” from past participle of tirare “to draw.” The whole Romanic word group is of uncertain origin; some think it is a shortening of the source of Old French martirer “endure martyrdom” (see martyr).

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