Definition of tempest

• n. - An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
• n. - Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
• n. - A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
• v. t. - To disturb as by a tempest.
• v. i. - To storm.