TEMPEST

tempest

(noun) (literary) a violent wind; “a tempest swept over the island”

storm, tempest

(noun) a violent commotion or disturbance; “the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away”; “it was only a tempest in a teapot”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

tempest (plural tempests)

A storm, especially one with severe winds.

Any violent tumult or commotion.

(obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

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.

Proper noun

Tempest

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

Tem"pest, n. Etym: [OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (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. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.

2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] Smollett.

Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.

Syn.

– Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.

Tem"pest, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempêter to rage.]

Definition: To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton.

Tem"pest, v. i.

Definition: To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition