Definitions for meteor

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meteor me·te·or

Spelling: [mee-tee-er, -awr]

IPA: /ˈmi ti ər, -ˌɔr/

Meteor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in meteor (eemort).

Definitions for meteor

noun

1. Astronomy. a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere. a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
2. any person or object that moves, progresses, becomes famous, etc., with spectacular speed.
3. (formerly) any atmospheric phenomenon, as hail or a typhoon.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. Britain's first operational jet fighter, a twin-engine aircraft that entered service in 1944.

Origin of meteor

1570-80; New Latin meteōrum Greek metéōron meteor, a thing in the air, noun use of neuter of metéōros raised in the air, equivalent to met- met- + eōr- (variant stem o

Examples for meteor

Good Lord, they must have headed right into a meteor shower.

Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.

Suppose she lead me now and then in pursuit of a meteor; am not I happy in the chase?

Then, without delay, he lowered the car into the meteor again.

This RT video shows an office getting its window blown out by the shockwave from the meteor.

There was but one Bonaparte; that subaltern from Corsica; that meteor.

A meteor streaked across Russia last Friday, igniting the sky with an ethereal explosion of light.

The inertia of the meteor has persisted, not as energy, but as a factor of energy.

Some industrious Chelyabinsk citizen has already offered to sell a piece of the meteor for a souvenir.

The idea had a short but powerful resonance: why did the meteor explode above ground, people wondered?