Sometimes we have to hear phraseological units: break out into a tirade, utter a whole tirade, etc. Their meaning is generally clear to almost everyone. But the situation is much more complicated with the word "tirade" taken out of context.
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.
- A completed passage in a poem or poem that can be divided into stanzas.
- Emotional statement of the character in the play, not related to the main plot.
Morphological characteristics, declension
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: ti-ra-da. If a word consists of more than one syllable, one of them is pronounced more strongly than the others. Such a syllable is called stressed, while the rest are unstressed. In the noun we are studying, the stress falls on the second syllable, that is, the first sound is stressed"a".
From the point of view of morphology, a tirade is a common noun, an inanimate feminine noun. Feminine nouns can refer to the first or third declension. "Tirade" in the nominative case ends in "a", therefore, it is declined according to the first type.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | What? | Tirade is a long off-topic speech. | The tirades of the poem were unrelated. |
| Genitive | What? | The beginning of the tirade did not bode well. | Tirade was not enough for us yet! |
| Dative | What? | The whole poem can be judged by the first tirade. | Miguel's rants have always lacked pathos. |
| Accusative | What? | Pyotr Vyacheslavovich Obolensky patiently listened to the tirade and calmly left the room, never to return again. | I don't like these long rants of yours. |
| Instrumental | What? | Mikhail Petrovich was pleased with his tirade. | Her tirades were always laughed at. |
| Prepositional case | About what? | His tirade had it all: humor, seriousness, and a touch of sadness. | In this article, we will talk about tirades. |
Tirade: synonyms
How boring it would be if only one matched one thingword. 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 for the word "tirade" are:
- statement;
- speech;
- rebuff;
- replica;
- speech;
- phrase;
- toast.
