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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 violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va??l?ns/, /?va?l?ns/
• (obsolete or poetic) IPA^(key): /?va???l?ns/, /?va??l?ns/
• Rhymes: -a??l?ns, -a?l?ns

Noun

violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)

1. Extreme force.

2. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

3. Widespread fighting.

4. (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
   • 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change

     Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]

5. (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

Antonyms

• (action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering): peace, nonviolence

Hypernyms

• (extreme force): force

Related terms

• violent
• violate
• violation

Translations

See also

• domestic violence
• reverse domestic violence

Verb

violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)

1. (nonstandard) To subject to violence.
   • 1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE ?ISBN, page 36:

     The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position  ...

   • 2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 24:

     And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.

   • 2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press ?ISBN, page 46:

     He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.

References

• violence at OneLook Dictionary Search
• violence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "violence" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 329.
• violence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from the adjective violentus, see violent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vj?.l??s/
• Homophone: violences

Noun

violence f (plural violences)

1. (uncountable) violence
2. (countable) act of violence

Synonyms

• ardeur
• brutalité
• force
• fougue
• fureur
• sévices
• virulence

Antonyms

• douceur

Derived terms

• faire violence

Related terms

• violemment
• violent
• violenter

Further reading

• “violence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense

Etymology

From Old French violence, from Latin violentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /vi?l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l?ns(?)/

Noun

violence (uncountable)

1. Violence (harmful manual force) or an example of it.
2. A harmful force of nature; great natural force.
3. Divine or religious force or strength.
4. The force or power of one's feelings or mental state.
5. Powerful or forceful movement or mobility.
6. Misrule or malgovernance; abuse of authority.
7. (rare) Beneficial manual force.
8. (rare) The strength of an ache.
9. (rare) The whims of chance.

Descendants

• English: violence

References

• “v??olence, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin violentia.

Noun

violence f (oblique plural violences, nominative singular violence, nominative plural violences)

1. violence
2. act of violence

Descendants

• ? Middle English: violence, violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
  • English: violence
• French: violence