different between tumult vs bluster

English

Etymology

From Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tju?.m?lt/, /?t?u?.m?lt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tu?.m?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

tumult (plural tumults)

1. Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
2. Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.

3. A riot or uprising.

Synonyms

• uproar
• ruckus

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tumult (third-person singular simple present tumults, present participle tumulting, simple past and past participle tumulted)

1. (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tumult/, [t?u?mul?d?]

Noun

tumult c (singular definite tumulten, plural indefinite tumulter)

1. uproar, tumult
2. riot, disturbance
3. scuffle

Inflection

Synonyms

• tummel

Related terms

• tumultagtig
• tumultarisk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tumult, from Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty?m?lt/
• Hyphenation: tu?mult
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

tumult n (plural tumulten)

1. tumult

Derived terms

• tumultueus

Polish

Etymology

From Latin tumultus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.mult/

Noun

tumult m inan

1. tumult (noise as made by a crowd)

   Synonym: zgie?k

2. (archaic) tumult (violent commotion or agitation)

   Synonym: zamieszki

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) tumultowy

Further reading

• tumult in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tumult in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tumultus

Noun

tumult n (plural tumulturi)

1. tumult

Synonyms

• larm?
• zarv?
• agita?ie

Related terms

• tumultos, tumultuos

English

Etymology

From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bl?s.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl?s.t?/
• (US)
• (General Australian)
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Noun

bluster (countable and uncountable, plural blusters)

1. Pompous, officious talk.
2. A gust of wind.
3. Fitful noise and violence.

Synonyms

• (pompous talk): bombast

Translations

Verb

bluster (third-person singular simple present blusters, present participle blustering, simple past and past participle blustered)

1. To speak or protest loudly.

2. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
   • 1774, Edmund Burke, A Speech on American Taxation

     Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.

   • 1532, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

     He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.

   • As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.

3. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Butlers, Struble, brustle, bustler, butlers, subtler, turbels