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screed
Screed (noun) means a piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
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1
A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
"I see it's three o'clock in the morning and I've written whole screeds when I only intended to write a short note!"
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, The Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont: 12 August 17—— (1995)
2
A long, angry piece of writing or speech that criticises something harshly.
"One of our primary tasks is to replace racist screeds like The Bell Curve and The End of Racism with sound economic arguments that are relatively simple to understand and yet serious enough to encompass divergent points of view."
— Marcellus Andrews, A Preface in Three Parts: Economics as a Razor (1999)
3
(usually plural) A large amount of something.
"It uses a lot of footage of Japanese actors, and screeds of character text, making it unlikely to see a European release."
— Mean Machines Sega (1995)
4
A term used in building work and masonry.
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Etymology
From Middle English screde [and other forms], a variant of shrede (“fragment, scrap; strip of cloth; strip cut off from a larger piece; band or thread woven into fabric; element, streak”) (whence shred (noun)), from Old English sċrēad, sċrēade (“a piece cut off; paring, shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“a piece, shred; a cut, crack”), from *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). The English word is cognate with Old Frisian skrēd. Doublet of escrow, scroll, and shred.
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What is the meaning of screed?
"screed" (noun) means a piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
What is another word for screed?
Other words for "screed" include tirade, polemic, rant, harangue, diatribe, philippic.
What are the different meanings of screed?
"screed" has 3 main meanings: 1. A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long; 2. A long, angry piece of writing or speech that criticises something harshly; 3. (usually plural) A large amount of something.
