storm

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English

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English storm, from Old English storm (“a storm, tempest; a storm of arrows; disturbance, disquiet; uproar, tumult; rush, onrush, attack, violent attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz (“storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). Related to stir.

Cognates
Cognate with Scots storm (“storm”), West Frisian stoarm (“storm”), Dutch storm (“storm”), Low German storm (“storm”), German Sturm (“storm”), Danish storm (“storm”), Swedish storm (“storm”), Norwegian Bokmål storm (“storm”), Norwegian Nynorsk storm (“storm”), Icelandic stormur (“storm”).

Noun

storm (plural storms)

  1. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
    The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.
    • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      We hear this fearful tempest sing, / Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
    • 2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 1, page 70:
      Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
  2. (Australia) A thunderstorm.
  3. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.
    The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.
  4. (meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).
  5. (military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Terms derived from storm (noun)
Descendants
  • → Esperanto: ŝtormo
  • → Irish: stoirm
  • → Scottish Gaelic: stoirm
Translations
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See also

Etymology 2

From Middle English stormen, sturmen, from Old English styrman (“to storm, rage; make a great noise, cry aloud, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan, from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”). Cognate with Dutch stormen (“to storm; bluster”), Low German stormen (“to storm”), German stürmen (“to storm; rage; attack; assault”), Swedish storma (“to storm; bluster”), Icelandic storma (“to storm”).

Verb

storm (third-person singular simple present storms, present participle storming, simple past and past participle stormed)

  1. (impersonal) (weather it) To be violent, with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
    It stormed throughout the night.
  2. (intransitive) (figurative) To rage or fume; to be in a violent temper.
  3. (intransitive, with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.
    She stormed out of the room.
    • 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:
      A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
  4. (transitive) [army; crowd, rioters] To assault (a significant building) with the aim to gain power over it.
    Troops stormed the complex.
    the storming of the Bastille
    • 1974 [1973], K. S. Karol, “The August of the Ultra-Left”, in Mervyn Jones, transl., The Second Chinese Revolution‎[2], Hill and Wang, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 278:
      The crowd was patient and never dreamed of storming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans against Liu and quotations from Mao. The Chairman, like Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.
  5. (transitive) (rare, poetic) to assault, gain power over (heart, mind+).
    • 1750, “Theodora”, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music)‎[3]:
      No engine can a tyrant find, to storm the truth-supported mind.
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Further reading

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch storm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔrm/, [stɔɾm], [ˈstɔɾəm]
  • The plural is almost always disyllabic.
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

storm (plural storms)

  1. storm

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stormr (“storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Noun

storm c (singular definite stormen, plural indefinite storme)

  1. storm

Inflection

Declension of storm
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative storm stormen storme stormene
genitive storms stormens stormes stormenes

Verb

storm

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of storme

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch storm, from Old Dutch *storm, from Proto-West Germanic *sturm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz.

Noun

storm m (plural stormen, diminutive stormpje n)

  1. storm; a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane.
  2. (of sieges or battles) assault, storming
    Synonym: bestorming
Usage notes

Unlike English storm, the Dutch word is not associated with rainfall. A storm may, of course, be accompanied by rainfall, but the word as such refers only to strong winds.

Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

storm

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of stormen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of stormen

Anagrams

Icelandic

Noun

storm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of stormur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *storm, from Proto-West Germanic *sturm.

Noun

storm m

  1. storm, violent weather
  2. storm, heavy wind
  3. storm, assault

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

storm

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English storm.

Pronunciation

Noun

storm (plural stormes)

  1. A storm; an instance of intense wind and precipitation (including a snowstorm)
  2. An armed dispute, brawl or fight; an instance of combativeness.
  3. (rare) Any intense event, happening, or force.

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Noun

storm m (definite singular stormen, indefinite plural stormer, definite plural stormene)

  1. a storm
    En kraftig storm er venta seinere i dag.
    A strong storm is expected to hit later today.
    en storm i et vannglass - a storm in a teacup (British)
Derived terms
Terms derived from storm

Etymology 2

Verb

storm

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of storme

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). Akin to English storm.

Pronunciation

Noun

storm m (definite singular stormen, indefinite plural stormar, definite plural stormane)

  1. storm (a very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane)
    Ein kraftig storm er venta seinare i dag.
    A strong storm is expected to hit later today.

Derived terms

Terms derived from storm

References

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sturm, whence also Old Saxon storm, Old High German sturm, Old Norse stormr.

Pronunciation

Noun

storm m

  1. storm

Declension

Declension of storm (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative storm stormas
accusative storm stormas
genitive stormes storma
dative storme stormum

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stormber, from Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔrm/
  • Audio (Phrase including indefinite article: en storm, literally 'a storm'. Female speaker from Gotland, Sweden.):(file)

Noun

storm c

  1. storm; heavy winds or weather associated with storm winds.

Declension

Declension of storm 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative storm stormen stormar stormarna
Genitive storms stormens stormars stormarnas

See also

Anagrams

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