Meteor

What do we mean by meteor?

A bright streak of light that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. noun

A meteoroid or meteorite. noun

Any atmospheric phenomenon. noun

Specifically A transient fiery or luminous body seen in or through the atmosphere, usually in its more elevated region: a shooting-star. If it reaches the surface of the earth, it is called a meteorite, formerly aërolite, and also (very rarely) uranolite. noun

A small body moving in space, and of the same nature as those which become visible by encountering our atmosphere. noun

An abbreviation of meteorology, meteorological. noun

Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. noun

Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. noun

A mass of stone or other substance which sometimes falls to the earth from space beyond the moon, burning up from atomospheric friction and creating a brilliant but usually very brief trail of light in the atmosphere; also called a shooting star. noun

A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star. noun

A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable. noun

A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain. noun

(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere noun

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 noun

A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.

Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).

A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.

A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.

Any short-lived source of wonderment.

Words that are spelled similarly to meteor:
meteor, meter, meteo.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word meteor:
shower, showers, seamount, meteorite, hotspot, fireball, comet, radiant, crater, scatter, hawker, asteroid, fragment, constellation, jet, rover, cromwell, impacts, raf, burst, amtrak, crashes, hammer, impact, debris, vampire, extinction, orbit, atmosphere, earth, jets, alien, dust, fighter, strikes, flown, mercury, peaks, trails, missile, observatory, squadron, awards, planet, spacecraft, observations, explosion, garden, rocket, strike, crash, sky, ago, radar, mars, engine, irish, storm, destroy, disbanded, tank, hunter, arizona, falling, expedition, moon, aircraft, observed, struck, parent, flying, rocks, visible, flew, hour, mobile, diameter, powered, rain, landed, satellite, weapon, bright, dublin, object.

Words that rhyme with meteor:
meatier.

Adjectives that are often used to describe meteor:
brilliant, bright, large, fiery, great, blazing, flaming, huge, giant, splendid, red, beautiful, luminous, big, remarkable, german, transient, strange, caucus, hoary, extraordinary, single, baleful, fleeting, bearded, silent, green, dazzling, favorite, fallen, average, enormous, mere, portentous, superb, shooting, occasional, gigantic, magnificent, hairy, malevolent, atmospheric, golden, sudden, harmless, fine, literary, pale, largest, theatrical, poetical, lurid, tiny, perseid, immense, sporadic, swift, delusive, blue, wonderful, typical, friendly, dim, faint, wild, false, siberian, gay, frightful, mighty, und, unusual, massive, moving, pestilential, erratic, brightest, artificial, light.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective meteor:
shower, flag, burst, showers, eyes, swarms, stream, systems, ray, streams, system, moons, flash, light, train, swarm, complex, stone, impact, priroda, craters, breathing, trails, cloud, scatter, planets, crater, lights, body, glances, asteroids, forms, parties, cat, patrol, happiness, region, paths, glare, paper, watch, werk, blade, gleam, bursts, forschungsergeb, bearer, eye, strike, kind, spectra, orbit, pen, drift, dust, steel, fahrt, associations, zones, cluster, fragments, bird, observations, trail, spectroscope, fleet.

Consonant match to meteor:
mightier, mateo, mutterer, metry, meatier, matteo, metoyer, matter he, matter her, mattie a, meter he, metre he, mighty a, miti e, motor he.

Words that sound like meteor:
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