Meaning

3 senses
  1. A storm, especially one with severe winds.

    Sturm

    бу́ряbúrja

    бу́ряbúrja

  2. Any violent tumult or commotion.

    бу́ряbúrja

    a violent commotion or disturbance

  3. (obsolete)A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. It's a tempest in a teapot.

    deDas ist ein Sturm im Wasserglas.

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  2. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempest and hailstorm.

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  3. But U.N. officials call the number of people seeking asylum in the industrialized countries a tempest in a teapot.

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  4. Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters.

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  5. Here AEolus within a dungeon vast / the sounding tempest and the struggling blast / bends to his sway and bridles them with chains.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
storm:
Русский
By meaning 1
storm:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
storm:

Origin

From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“t

From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”). Displaced native Old English hrīþ.

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Forms

plural: tempests
Singulartempest
Pluraltempests

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a violent commotion or disturbance:storm

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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