Noun tempest has 2 senses
  1. storm, tempest - a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
    --1 is a kind of disturbance, disruption, commotion, stir, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
  2. tempest - (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
    --2 is a kind of
    windstorm
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