tempest
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French tempeste (French: tempête), from Latin tempestas, storm, from tempus, time, weather
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[edit] Noun
tempest (plural tempests)
- A storm, especially one with severe winds.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, ch. 16,
- As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, ch. 16,
- Any violent tumult or commotion.
- 1914, Ambrose Bierce, "One Officer, One Man,"
- They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.
- 1914, Ambrose Bierce, "One Officer, One Man,"
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storm
Any violent tumult or commotion
[edit] Verb
tempest (third-person singular simple present tempests, present participle tempesting, simple past and past participle tempested)
- (intransitive, rare) To storm.
- (transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
- 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Drowned Lover," in Poems from St. Irvyne,
- Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,
- And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.
- 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Drowned Lover," in Poems from St. Irvyne,
[edit] Translations
To storm
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To disturb, as by a tempest
[edit] References
- “tempest” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- tempest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “tempest” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
[edit] Middle English
[edit] Etymology
Old French tempeste
[edit] Noun
tempest (plural tempests)
- tempest (storm)
