Sometimes we have to hear idioms: break out in a tirade, utter a whole tirade, etc. Their meaning is understandable to almost everyone as a whole. But the situation with the word “tirade” taken out of context is much more complicated.
Tirade is ...
To find out the exact meaning of this word, you can refer to the explanatory dictionaries of several authors. What will they tell us?
Tirade is:
- Long lengthy statement.
- Finished passage in a poem or poem that can be divided into stanzas.
- The emotional statement of the actor in the play, not related to the main plot.
Morphological characteristics, declination
Tirade is a word consisting of the same number of letters and sounds, of which there are six. Since there are three vowels, the word can be divided into three syllables: tira-da. If a word consists of more than one syllable, one of them is pronounced stronger than the others. Such a syllable is called stressed, while the rest are unstressed. In the noun we study, the stress falls on the second syllable, that is, the first sound “a” is stressed.
From the point of view of morphology, a tirade is a household, inanimate noun of the feminine gender. Feminine nouns can refer to the first or third declension. “Tirade” in the nominative case ends in “a”, therefore, it is inclined according to the first type.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | What? | Tirade is a long speech off topic. | The tirades of the poem were not interconnected. |
| Genitive | What? | The beginning of the tirade did not bode well. | We still lacked a tirade! |
| Dative | Why? | By the first tirade one can judge the whole poem. | Miguel’s tirades always lacked pathos. |
| Accusative | What? | Pyotr Vyacheslavovich Obolensky patiently listened to the tirade and calmly left the room so that he would never return. | I do not like these long tirades of yours. |
| Instrumental case | Than? | Mikhail Petrovich was pleased with his tirade. | Her tirades have always been laughed at. |
| Prepositional | About what? | His tirade had everything: humor, and seriousness, and a note of sadness. | In this article we will talk about tirades. |
Tirade: synonyms
It would be boring if only one word corresponded to one thing. But this does not threaten us, the Russian language is full of synonyms, that is, words that sound differently, but have the same or similar meaning.
Full and partial synonyms of the word "tirade" are:
- utterance;
- speech;
- rebuke
- replica;
- speech;
- phrase;
- toast.