different between tumult vs contest

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 French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?st/
• (US) enPR: k?n't?st, IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?st/
• Rhymes: -?nt?st

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: k?nt?st', IPA^(key): /k?n?t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

contest (countable and uncountable, plural contests)

1. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.

   Synonyms: controversy, debate, discussion

2. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.

   Synonyms: battle, combat, fight

3. (countable) A competition.

   Synonyms: competition, pageant

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

contest (third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested)

1. (intransitive) To contend.

   Synonyms: compete, contend, go in for

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory

2. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.

   Synonyms: call into question, oppose

   Antonym: support

   • 1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century

     Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.

3. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

4. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

   Synonym: controvert

Translations

Anagrams

• Consett, Cottens