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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail.
  2. n. Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar: "The tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take all feeling” ( Shakespeare).
  3. v. To cause a tempest around or in.
  4. idiom. teacup A great disturbance or uproar over a matter of little or no importance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A very violent storm; an extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious gale; a hurricane.
  2. n. A violent tumult or commotion; perturbation; violent agitation: as, a tempest of the passions; a popular or political tempest.
  3. To disturb violently, as by a tempest; rouse; throw into a state of commotion; agitate.
  4. To descend as a tempest; be tempestuous; storm.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A storm, especially one with severe winds.
  2. n. Any violent tumult or commotion.
  3. v. intransitive, rare To storm.
  4. v. transitive To disturb, as by a tempest.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
  2. n. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion.
  3. n. Archaic A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
  4. v. obsolete To disturb as by a tempest.
  5. v. obsolete To storm.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (literary) a violent wind
  2. n. a violent commotion or disturbance

Etymologies

  1. From Old French tempeste (French: tempête), from Latin tempestas, storm, from tempus, time, weather (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French tempeste, from Vulgar Latin *tempesta, variant of Latin tempestās, from tempus, time. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. perturbation
  1. agitation
  1. storm
  1. commotion

hypernyms (10)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. windstorm
  2. disturbance
  1. commotion
  2. hoo-hah
  1. flutter
  2. kerfuffle
  1. hoo-ha
  2. hurly-burly
  1. disruption
  2. to-do

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. storm
  2. hurricane
  3. tumult
  4. gale
  1. torrent
  2. whirlwind
  3. earthquake
  4. thunder
  1. uproar
  2. gust
  3. squall
  4. hail
  1. thunderstorm
  2. flood
  3. roar
  4. blast
  1. deluge
  2. calamity
  3. strife
  4. downpour

reverse dictionary (37)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tempestuous
  2. tempest
  3. wind
  4. lower
  5. bellow
  6. orage
  7. storm-tossed
  1. stormwind
  2. Caliban
  3. Widgets-driven
  4. bourasque
  5. entempest
  6. hagseed
  7. jury-mast
  1. Giorgione
  2. burke
  3. tempest-tossed
  4. tempest-beaten
  5. shipwreck
  6. storm
  7. tornado
  1. weather
  2. beat
  3. blow
  4. calm
  5. frightful
  6. gale
  7. grow
  1. hurricane
  2. imagination
  3. ravage
  4. roaring
  5. shake
  6. spoondrift
  7. stormy
  1. tease
  2. torment

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