1. tempest - Noun
2. tempest - Verb
3. Tempest - Proper noun
To storm.
An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
To disturb as by a tempest.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. Pythagoras
An horrible stilness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. John Dryden
How fleet is a glance of the mind Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. William Cowper
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. Thomas Browne
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" John Constable
Tempest in a teapot. Italian Proverb