'Harangue' definitions:
Definition of 'harangue'
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Definition of 'Harangue'
From: GCIDE
- Harangue \Ha*rangue"\ (h[.a]*r[a^]ng"), n. [F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenga, It. aringa; lit., a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring, anything round, ring of people, G. ring. See Ring.] A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address to a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. [1913 Webster]
- Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. --Milton.
- Syn: Harangue, Speech, Oration.
- Usage: Speech is generic; an oration is an elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues the populace on the subject of their wrongs. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Harangue'
From: GCIDE
- Harangue \Ha*rangue"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harangued (h[.a]*r[a^]ngd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Haranguing.] [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.] To make an harangue; to declaim. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Harangue'
From: GCIDE
- Harangue \Ha*rangue"\, v. t. To address by an harangue. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'harangue'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declaim,
- declamation,
- demagogue,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- elocute,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- explain,
- exposit,
- exposition,
- expound,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- hold forth,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- moralize,
- mouth,
- object lesson,
- orate,
- oration,
- out-herod Herod,
- pep talk,
- perorate,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- point a moral,
- pontificate,
- preach,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- read,
- read a lesson,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recite,
- rodomontade,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- sermonize,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- soapbox,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spout,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- tub-thump,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vituperate,
- vituperation