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TIRADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tirade mean?
• TIRADE (noun)
The noun TIRADE has 1 sense:
1. a speech of violent denunciation
Familiarity information: TIRADE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A speech of violent denunciation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("tirade" is a kind of...):
denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)
declamation (vehement oratory)
Context examples
"You might have spared yourself the trouble of delivering that tirade," answered Georgiana.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This tirade against destiny went on for an hour or more, and then he buckled to his work, limping and groaning, and in his eyes a great hatred for all created things.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The hunters piled pell-mell out of the steerage, but as Leach’s tirade continued I saw that there was no levity in their faces.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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