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meteor

noun

1 meteor

astronomy Any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere.

synonym: meteoroid.

Dutch: meteoroïde
Polish: meteor, meteoroid, spadająca gwiazda

2 meteor

A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.

synonym: shooting star.

Roget 318: world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm; music of the spheres.    ... show more

Roget 423: luminary; light etc. 420; flame etc. (fire) 382.    spark, scintilla; phosphorescence, fluorescence.    sun, orb of day, ... show more

Dutch: meteoriet, vallende ster, meteoor
Polish: meteor


Moby thesaurus: aerolite, asteroids, aurora particles, blackout, bolide, chondrite, cosmic dust, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, fireball, intergalactic matter, meteor crater, meteor dust, meteor dust impacts, meteor shower, meteor swarm, meteor trail, meteor train, meteoric shower, meteorite ... show more.

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