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How to pronounce rant in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rave, spout
Type of mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Derivation ranter, ranting
Type Words
Synonyms blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian
Type of grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, grandiloquence
Type Words
Synonyms harangue, ranting
Type of declamation
Has types screed

Examples of rant

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A customer posted the woman's rant on YouTube, which got more than 207,000 hits.
From the dailyherald.com
Sadly, it quickly turned into a sweary rant and an alleged slap across her face.
From the hecklerspray.com
Tim Minchin's nine-minute beat poem rant has been released as an animated movie.
From the guardian.co.uk
We have watched them wail and rant like toddlers as they are hauled off to jail.
From the washingtonpost.com
We asked our favourite writers to rant, reflect or reminisce on a festive theme.
From the independent.co.uk
Intense on screen, he's just as ferocious off it, as his Terminator rant proved.
From the metro.co.uk
Your angered rant is typical of the entitlement mentality of Government workers.
From the forbes.com
He never said legal immigrants either, so I am not sure what your rant is about.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
Every now and then he goes on a rant, when he doesn't feel the love or whatever.
From the tennessean.com
More examples
  • Harangue: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  • Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
  • Bombast: pompous or pretentious talk or writing
  • A rant is a speech or text that does not present a calm argument; rather, it is typically an enthusiastic speech or talk or lecture on an idea, a person or an institution. Compare with a dialectic.
  • Rant is the 10th solo of Ian Hunter. Unlike some of his previous albums, Hunter wrote all tracks. It's also his most political album in 25 years.
  • Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk released on May 1, 2007.
  • Ranten is a municipality in the district of Murau in Styria, Austria.
  • (Ranting) A monologue (or monolog) The character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience, especially the former. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media (plays, films, animation, etc.). ...
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