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tempest

noun
/ˈtɛm.pəst/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from tempestas
  2. derived from tempeste

Definitions

  1. A storm, especially one with severe winds.

    • As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.

  2. Any violent tumult or commotion.

    • Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided
    • They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.

  3. A fashionable social gathering

    A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To storm.

    2. To disturb, as by a tempest.

      • . . . the seal And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.
      • Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve, And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.

    3. A surname transferred from the nickname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tempest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tempest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at tempest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA