tempest
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pɪst noun
1.
a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
2.
a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult.
verb (used with object)
Idioms 3.
to affect by or as by a tempest; disturb violently.
4.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English tempeste < Old French < Vulgar Latin *tempesta, for Latin tempestās season, weather, storm, equivalent to tempes- (variant stem of tempus time) + -tās -ty2
1200–50; Middle English tempeste < Old French < Vulgar Latin *tempesta, for Latin tempestās season, weather, storm, equivalent to tempes- (variant stem of tempus time) + -tās -ty2
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Tempest, The
noun
a comedy (1611) by Shakespeare.
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| —n | |
| 1. | literary chiefly a violent wind or storm |
| 2. | a violent commotion, uproar, or disturbance |
| —vb | |
| 3. | poetic (tr) to agitate or disturb violently |
| [C13: from Old French tempeste, from Latin tempestās storm, from tempus time] | |
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Word Origin & History
tempest
"violent storm," mid-13c., from O.Fr. tempeste (11c.), from V.L. *tempesta, from L. tempestas (gen. tempestatis) "storm, weather, season," also "commotion, disturbance," related to tempus "time, season." Sense evolution is from "period of time" to "period of weather," to "bad weather" to "storm." Words
for "weather" were originally words for "time" in languages from Russia to Brittany. Figurative sense of "violent commotion" is recorded from early 14c.
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Example sentences
The unaccustomed feels the sensation of being in a panic, in a tempest, in a cyclone.
The tempest suddenly acquired a new political dimension unforeseen by shakespeare.
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