"tirade" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /taɪˈɹeɪd/ [UK], /tɪˈɹeɪd/ [UK], /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-tirade.wav [UK] Forms: tirades [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪd Etymology: From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|tirade||monologue, speech, tirade}} French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tirade (plural tirades)
  1. A long, angry or violent speech. Synonyms: diatribe, diatribe Translations (long, angry or violent speech): тира́да (tiráda) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 长篇大论 (chángpiāndàlùn) (Chinese Mandarin), tiráda [feminine] (Czech), tirade (Dutch), vuodatus (Finnish), saarna (Finnish), diatribe [feminine] (French), tirade [feminine] (French), Tirade [feminine] (German), υβρεολόγιο (yvreológio) [neuter] (Greek), tiráda (Hungarian), szóáradat (Hungarian), invettiva [feminine] (Italian), tūpeha (Maori), tūpehataua (Maori), diatribe [feminine] (Portuguese), тира́да (tiráda) [feminine] (Russian), tiráda (Slovak), diatriba [feminine] (Spanish), invectiva [feminine] (Spanish), catilinaria [feminine] (Spanish), tirat (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-tirade-en-noun-bko9wHR5 Disambiguation of 'long, angry or violent speech': 99 1
  2. A section of verse concerning a single theme. Synonyms: laisse Translations (section of verse concerning a single theme): tirade [feminine] (French), laisse [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-tirade-en-noun-fwK72QbX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 83 10 Disambiguation of 'section of verse concerning a single theme': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: j'accuse, tantrum

Verb

IPA: /taɪˈɹeɪd/ [UK], /tɪˈɹeɪd/ [UK], /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-tirade.wav [UK] Forms: tirades [present, singular, third-person], tirading [participle, present], tiraded [participle, past], tiraded [past]
Rhymes: -eɪd Etymology: From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|tirade||monologue, speech, tirade}} French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”) Head templates: {{en-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.
    Sense id: en-tirade-en-verb-7tVD7~QG

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tirades",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tirading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tiraded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tiraded",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tirade (third-person singular simple present tirades, present participle tirading, simple past and past participle tiraded)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "violent",
          "violent"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/taɪˈɹeɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɪˈɹeɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtaɪɹeɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-tirade.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-tirade.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-tirade.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-tirade.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-tirade.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tirade"
}

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