name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tempest
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A storm, especially one with severe winds.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any violent tumult or commotion.
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noun
Meaning 4
A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 5
To storm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, rare
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verb
Meaning 6
To disturb, as by a tempest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic, transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
(literary) a violent wind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a tempest swept over the island
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Broader terms: windstorm
noun
Meaning 8
a violent commotion or disturbance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away
- it was only a tempest in a teapot
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: storm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
History
Etymology
From tempest, a nickname for someone with a blustery temperament.
From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”). Displaced native Old English hrīþ.
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: бу́ра (búra) — storm
- Bulgarian: бу́ря (búrja) — storm
- Catalan: tempesta — storm
- Chinese Mandarin: 暴風雨 /暴风雨 (bàofēngyǔ) — storm
- Czech: bouře — storm
- Dutch: storm — storm
- Finnish: myrsky — storm
- Finnish: rajuilma — storm
- French: tempête — storm
- German: Sturm — storm
- Greek: καταιγίδα (kataigída) — storm
- Hindi: आँधी (āndhī) — storm
- Hungarian: vihar — storm
- Italian: tempesta — storm
- Italian: procella — storm
- Japanese: 嵐 (arashi) — storm
- Japanese: 荒れ (are) — storm
- Japanese: 暴風雨 (bōfūu) — storm
- Japanese: 風雨 (fūu) — storm
- Korean: 폭풍 (pokpung) — storm
- Latin: tempestas — storm
- Latin: procella — storm
- Macedonian: бура (bura) — storm
- Māori: pārerarera — storm
- Māori: paraawa — storm
- Māori: taupoki — storm
- Occitan: tempèsta — storm
- Polish: burza — storm
- Portuguese: tempestade — storm
- Romanian: furtună — storm
- Russian: бу́ря (búrja) — storm
- Serbo-Croatian: олуја — storm
- Serbo-Croatian: oluja — storm
- Spanish: tempestad — storm
- Spanish: temporal — storm
- Swahili: dhoruba — storm
- Thai: พายุ (paa-yú) — storm
- Ottoman Turkish: بورا (bora) — storm
- Ukrainian: бу́ря (búrja) — storm
- Walloon: timpesse — storm
- Welsh: tymestl — storm
- Māori: heihei — any violent tumult or commotion
- Māori: whakatioro — any violent tumult or commotion
- Māori: tūkōripi — any violent tumult or commotion
- Portuguese: tempestade — any violent tumult or commotion
- Russian: бу́ря (búrja) — any violent tumult or commotion
- Serbo-Croatian: nepogoda — any violent tumult or commotion
- Walloon: timpesse — any violent tumult or commotion
- Bulgarian: бушувам (bušuvam) — To storm
- Catalan: tempestejar — To storm
- Russian: бушева́ть (buševátʹ) — To storm
- Spanish: tempestear — To storm
- Bulgarian: бушувам (bušuvam) — To disturb, as by a tempest
- Russian: бушевать (buševatʹ) — To disturb, as by a tempest
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