About The Word Tempest
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Tempest
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What's The Definition Of Tempest?
[n] (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
[n] a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tempest: storm Related Terms | Find terms related to Tempest: See Also | commotion | disruption | disturbance | flutter | hoo-ha | hoo-hah | hurly burly | kerfuffle | stir | to-do | turmoil | windstorm Tempest In Webster's Dictionary \Tem"pest\, n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp[^e]te, (assumed)
LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season,
weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See {Temporal} of time.]
1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity
and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or
snow; a furious storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed. --Milton.
2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political
tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under {Drum},
n., 4. [Archaic] --Smollett.
Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of
self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten,
tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the
like.
Syn: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See {Storm}.
\Tem"pest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[^e]ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. --Milton. \Tem"pest\, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. |
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