Definitions for meteorite

meteorite me·te·or·ite

Spelling: [mee-tee-uh-rahyt]
IPA: /ˈmi ti əˌraɪt/

Meteorite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in meteorite (eeeimortt).

Definitions for meteorite

noun

  1. a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.
  2. a meteoroid.

Origin of meteorite

First recorded in 1815-25; meteor + -ite1

Examples for meteorite

Say, Tom, that IS tough, having your meteorite thrown overboard!

For example, a common type of meteorite has similar mineral content to Earth, but a lot less deuterium.

The third in size is the Willamette meteorite, found at Willamette in Oregon in 1902.

This material is said, by Prof. Baden-Powell, to be "totally unlike that of any other meteorite."

That the fishes had fallen among the fragments of the meteorite.

The stone is perhaps a meteorite, set in a corner at a proper height for kissing.

I feel sure that our meteorite came from that far-off world!

Yet, what a history a meteorite might tell us if we could only manage to obtain it!

In the "Iliad," Zeus is said to have sent Athena as a meteorite from heaven to earth.

But how many of them remember the CNN host who asked whether the Russian meteorite had been caused by global warming?

Word Value for meteorite
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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