tempest - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'tempest' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Tempest

[ n.]

- An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
- Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
- A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

2 . Tempest

[ v. i.]

- To storm.

3 . Tempest

[ v. t.]

- To disturb as by a tempest.

Meaning of 'tempest' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . tempest

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- (literary) a violent wind

Example in sentence:

a tempest swept over the island

Meaning (2):
- a violent commotion or disturbance

Example in sentence:

it was only a tempest in a teapot;
the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away

Nearby Words:

temerarious temeration temerity temerous tempean temper tempera temperable temperament temperamental

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