tempest : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tempest	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for tempest
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tempest n a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot" Synonym(s): storm, tempest (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tempest \Tem"pest\, n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp[88]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. [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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[88]ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. --Milton.