Tirade

See also: tirade

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French tirade.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

Tirade f (genitive Tirade, plural Tiraden)

1. tirade (meaningless utterance; torrent of words)
2. (music) run of rapidly successive tones as an ornament between twotones of a melody

Declension

Declension of Tirade [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Tirade	die	Tiraden
genitive	einer	der	Tirade	der	Tiraden
dative	einer	der	Tirade	den	Tiraden
accusative	eine	die	Tirade	die	Tiraden

Derived terms

• Schimpftirade

Further reading

• “Tirade” in Duden online