Noun
tumult (plural tumults)
- Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
- Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
the tumult of the elements
the tumult of the spirits or passions
1990 December 9, Walta Borawski, quoting Allen Barnett, “'Unfortunately, Life Has Followed Art...'”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 7:This is what I wanted my story 'Snapshot' to sound like — a very cold surface, with heat and passion beneath. The icy surface is going to break and you're totally engulfed in the tumult.
2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:Football is a game of tumult and glory, of small disappointments and lingering dreams, and Mata has played long enough at the highest level to appreciate these truths.
- A riot or uprising.
Translations
noise as made by a crowd
- Bulgarian: глъчка (bg) f (glǎčka), врява (bg) f (vrjava)
- Catalan: tumult (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 喧哗 (zh) (xuanhua)
- Czech: nepokoj (cs) m
- Danish: tumult c, tummel c
- Dutch: tumult (nl) n
- Finnish: hälinä (fi), hulina (fi), mekkala (fi)
- French: barouf (fr) m, baroufe (fr) m
- German: Tumult (de) m, Krach (de) m, Lärm (de) m, lautes Stimmengewirr n
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 m (auhjōdus)
- Greek:
- Ancient: θόρυβος m (thórubos)
- Italian: tumulto (it) m
- Latin: clāmor (la) m, tumultus m
- Macedonian: вре́ва (vréva)
- Malayalam: ബഹളം (ml) (bahaḷaṁ)
- Maori: rarī
- Ottoman Turkish: گورلدی (gürüldü)
- Persian: هیاهو (fa) (hayâhu), سروصدا (fa) (sar-o-sedâ)
- Polish: tumult (pl) m
- Portuguese: tumulto (pt) m, clamor (pt) m
- Romanian: freamăt (ro), tumult (ro) n, tumulte
- Russian: гвалт (ru) (gvalt)
- Sanskrit: तुमुल (sa) n (tumula)
- Slovak: vrava f, bitka f
- Spanish: clamor (es) m, bullicio (es) m, alboroto (es) m
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violent commotion or agitation
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tumult/, [tˢuˈmulˀd̥]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tyˈmʏlt/
- Hyphenation: tu‧mult
- Rhymes: -ʏlt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtu.mult/
- Rhymes: -umult
- Syllabification: tu‧mult
Noun
tumult m inan
- tumult (noise as made by a crowd)
- Synonym: zgiełk
- (archaic) tumult (violent commotion or agitation)
- Synonym: zamieszki
Declension
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singular |
plural |
nominative |
tumult |
tumulty |
genitive |
tumultu |
tumultów |
dative |
tumultowi |
tumultom |
accusative |
tumult |
tumulty |
instrumental |
tumultem |
tumultami |
locative |
tumulcie |
tumultach |
vocative |
tumulcie |
tumulty |
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Further reading
- tumult in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tumult in Polish dictionaries at PWN