'Tempest' definitions:
Definition of 'tempest'
(from WordNet)
noun
A violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot" [syn: storm, tempest]
noun
(literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
Definition of 'Tempest'
From: GCIDE
- Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[^e]ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tempest'
From: GCIDE
- Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tempest'
From: GCIDE
- Tempest \Tem"pest\, n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp[^e]te, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.]
- 1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [1913 Webster]
- [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] --Smollett. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tempest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitation,
- black squall,
- blaze,
- blizzard,
- blow,
- brouhaha,
- burst,
- chaos,
- commotion,
- convulsion,
- cyclone,
- dirty weather,
- disorder,
- disruption,
- disturbance,
- equinoctial,
- eruption,
- explosion,
- ferment,
- fit,
- flare-up,
- foul weather,
- gale,
- gust,
- half a gale,
- heavy blow,
- hurly-burly,
- hurricane,
- ill wind,
- irruption,
- line squall,
- line storm,
- outbreak,
- outburst,
- paroxysm,
- perturbation,
- rainstorm,
- riot,
- rough weather,
- seizure,
- snowstorm,
- spasm,
- squall,
- squall line,
- storm,
- storm wind,
- stormy weather,
- stormy winds,
- strong wind,
- tempestuous rage,
- tempestuous wind,
- thick squall,
- thundersquall,
- thunderstorm,
- tornado,
- tropical cyclone,
- tumult,
- turbulence,
- typhoon,
- ugly wind,
- unrest,
- upheaval,
- uproar,
- violent blow,
- whirlwind,
- white squall,
- whole gale,
- williwaw,
- wind-shift line,
- windstorm