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say it: TEM-puhst
tempest is a noun meaning "a violent commotion or disturbance". It is pronounced /ˈtɛmpəst/ — TEM-puhst. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a violent commotion or disturbance
“the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away”
“it was only a tempest in a teapot”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tempest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.