Meteor

Noun

 * 1)  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 [next]).
 * 2) 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.
 * 3)  A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
 * 4)  A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.

Quotations

 * pp. 1859December Herman Melville, “The Portent (1859)”
 * But the streaming beard is shown
 * (Weird John Brown),
 * The meteor of the war.

Derived terms

 * meteor hammer
 * meteor shower
 * meteorette
 * meteoric
 * meteorist
 * meteorite
 * meteoritics
 * meteorize
 * meteorograph
 * meteoroid
 * meteorology
 * meteoromancy
 * meteorometer
 * meteoroscope
 * meteoroscopy
 * meteorosophistical
 * meteory
 * aerometeor
 * hydrometeor
 * lithometeor

Related terms

 * meteorism
 * meteorous

Related terms

 * meteorite
 * meteoroid


 * meteorology
 * meteoric

Adjectives for Meteor
disastrous; new-forged; unexpected; lurid; ominous; alarming; sudden; wandering; large; mighty; scarlet; cloud-encircled; descending; unctuous; deceitful.

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, meteoroid, meteorolite, meteors, micrometeorite, micrometeoroid, radiant, radiant point, radiation, shooting star, siderite, siderolite, space bullets, tektite, the bends, weightlessness

Etymology
Of origin, derived from the  meteorum:, from the  μετέωρον:, from μετέωρος:, from μετά: + ἀείρω:.

Translations

 * Armenian: ասուպ
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μετέωρο (metéoro)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 流星 (ryū-sei)


 * Korean: 유성 (yuseong)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: meteor, spadająca gwiazda
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: метеор
 * Roman: meteor
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: meteor
 * Tagalog:

Anagrams

 * remote

Noun

 * 1)  meteor

Noun

 * 1)  meteor

Noun

 * 1) a meteor

Related terms

 * meteorit