Found 3 items, similar to tempest.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: tempest taufan, topan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tempest tempest n 1: a violent commotion or disturbance; “the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away”; “it was only a tempest in a teapot” [syn: storm] 2: (literary) a violent wind; “a tempest swept over the island”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tempest Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[^e]ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Tempest \Tem"pest\, n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp[^e]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. [1913 Webster] [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions. [1913 Webster] 3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] --Smollett. [1913 Webster] Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like. [1913 Webster] Syn: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm. [1913 Webster] Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]