diatribes

Meanings

• noun

  A lengthy and heated argument or harangue.

  - "After the loss, the coach gave a passionate diatribe about the team's poor performance."
  - "During the town hall meeting, the mayor faced a diatribe from angry residents about the proposed budget cuts."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with diatribes
tribes , hives , rives

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Variants

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diatribe , diatribes

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Etymology

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From the Greek word 'diatribe' meaning 'discourse' or 'treatise'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'diatribe' was originally used in ancient Greece to refer to a written or spoken discourse on a particular topic.

2. The word 'diatribe' comes from the Greek word 'dia' meaning 'through' and 'tribein' meaning 'to rub' or 'to wear down'.

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Related Concepts

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1. rhetoric: Diatribes are a type of rhetorical device used to persuade or convince an audience.

2. harangue: A diatribe is a type of harangue, which is a long and passionate speech, often delivered in a threatening or intimidating manner.

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Quotes

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1. … his apparent inability to keep his pen from drifting from the main objective of his words into "diatribe" must have taken away from the sound and otherwise convincing arguments that he advanced.

   - Henry Petroski,{it}Engineers of Dreams{/it},1995

2. I looked … and listened to her ahistorical and apolitical "diatribe". Her comments were a more extreme form of the kind of Black bashing I've often heard …

   - Itabari Njeri,"Sushi and Grits",{"source"=>"in {it}Lure and Loathing{/it}", "aqdate"=>"1993"}

3. … gradually I realize the headman's "diatribe" has begun to feature a new term I was unfamiliar with at the time—the word for caterpillar, as it turns out, in the Iban dialect.

   - T. Coraghessan Boyle,{it}Harper's{/it},April 1993

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Culture

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In literature, diatribes are often used as monologues in plays or speeches in novels, allowing characters to express their opinions and emotions at length.

How to Memorize "diatribes"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a heated debate between two people, each taking turns to express their opinions and emotions in a lengthy and passionate way.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'diatribe' with the image of a red-faced speaker, gesturing wildly and expressing strong opinions.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember the word 'diatribe' as 'a lengthy, heated debate' or 'a passionate harangue'.

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