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Word entry · 7 letters

tempest

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"Fierce squall"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɛm.pəst/Part of speech nounSorted eempsttStarts with TEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2E3M4P5E6S7T

Definitions

  1. (literary) a violent wind

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided
  • . . . the seal And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.

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