Harangue

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: ha=rangue

CIDE DICTIONARY

Harangue, 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."

Syn. -- Harangue, Speech, Oration.

Harangue, v. i. [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.].

 To make an harangue; to declaim.  [1913 Webster]

Harangue, v. t. 

 To address by an harangue.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Harangue, n. & v.
--n. a lengthy and earnest speech.
--v.tr. lecture or make a harangue to.

Derivative

haranguer n.

Etymology

ME f. F f. OF arenge f. med.L harenga, perh. f. Gmc

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Harangue

n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

THESAURUS

Harangue

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Harangue

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

VB speak of, say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to, utter forth, pour forth, breathe, let fall, come out with, rap out, blurt out have on one's lips, have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue, break silence, open one's lips, open one's mouth, lift one's voice, raise one's voice, give the tongue, wag the tongue, talk, outspeak, put in a word or two, hold forth, make a speech, deliver a speech, speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs, have one's say, say one's say, spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage, expatiate, speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump, soliloquize, tell, speak to, talk together, be eloquent, have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab, pass one's lips, escape one's lips, fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.