Usually means: Violent storm with strong winds.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tempest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tempest: Merriam-Webster
  3. tempest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tempest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tempest: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tempest: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tempest, tempest: Wordnik
  8. tempest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tempest, tempest: Wiktionary
  10. tempest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tempest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tempest: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. The Tempest, tempest: Dictionary.com
  14. tempest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tempest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Tempest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tempest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tempest: Rhymezone
  20. tempest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tempest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TEMPEST, Tempest: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. tempest: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tempest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tempest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tempest: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. TEMPEST: Hacking Lexicon
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. TEMPEST: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TEMPEST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. tempest: Idioms
  5. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Tempest, tempest: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A storm, especially one with severe winds.
noun:  Any violent tumult or commotion.
noun:  (obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To storm.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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