- a violent storm
- The screaming tempest whipped into the house, hurling furniture across the room.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French tempeste, from Latin tempestas ‘season, weather, storm’, from tempus ‘time, season’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See tempest in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya tempest in a teapot (North American English)
(British English a storm in a teacup)
- a lot of anger or worry about something that is not important
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