Definitions for Perseid

Perseid Per·se·id

Spelling: [pur-see-id]
IPA: /ˈpɜr si ɪd/

Perseid is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in Perseid (deeiprs).

Definitions for Perseid

noun

  1. any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.

Origin of Perseid

1875-80; Perse(us) + -id1, or directly Greek Perseídēs offspring of Perseus

Examples for Perseid

For this reason, Leverrier pronounced, in 1867, the Perseid to be of older formation than the Leonid system.

The Perseid meteors sometimes fall at the rate of about sixty per hour.

A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.

Secondly, that it was a new power which he erected, and that he was not merely the transferee of the power of the Perseid line.

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