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Synonyms for tempest

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tem-pist
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛm pɪst

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Définition of tempest

Origin :
  • "violent storm," mid-13c., from Old French tempeste (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *tempesta, from Latin tempestas (genitive tempestatis) "storm, weather, season," also "commotion, disturbance," related to tempus "time, season" (see temporal). 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.
  • noun wild storm; commotion
Example sentences :
  • The tempest suppressed his voice, as it had put out the fire.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Let us now turn to "The Tempest," and see how our poet figures in it.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the Flying Dutchman.
  • Extract from : « The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • This last speech of Slipslop raised a tempest in the mind of her mistress.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding
  • The star that guides it is our guide, and in the tempest that menaces we behold our own doom!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But in the morning, all had again disappeared, as if swept by a tempest.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • Snow, and rain, and tempest came in quick succession for several days.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • The tempest was followed by damp, warm weather, which caused a regular thaw.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

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