Meteor

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from (English ) +.

The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  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).
 * 3) * 1801,, :
 * A meteor in the hazy air Play’d before his path; Before him now it roll’d A globe of livid fire; And now its wavy point Up-blazing rose, like a young cypress-tree Sway’d by the heavy wind; Anon to Thalaba it mov’d, And wrapt him in its pale innocuous fire
 * 1)  A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
 * 2)  A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
 * 3)  Any short-lived source of wonderment.

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with and  (cause and remains of a meteor), or  and  (celestial bodies).

Quotations

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

Derived terms




Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شِهَاب
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: উল্কা
 * Asturian: meteoru
 * Azerbaijani: meteor
 * Basque: meteoro
 * Belarusian: метэо́р
 * Bengali: উল্কা
 * Bulgarian: метеор
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , létavice
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, vallende ster
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: meteoor
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მეტეორი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: akua lele, hōkū lele, koli
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: អាកាសបាតុភូត
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:


 * Lao: ດາວຕົກ, ອຸກກາ, ທຸມະເກດ
 * Latvian: meteors
 * Lithuanian: meteoras
 * Macedonian: метеор
 * Maltese: meteora
 * Maori: kōkiri, matakōkiri, tūmatakōkiri, kōtiri, kōtiritiri
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: sǫʼ nanidéhígíí, sǫʼ náádiilwoʼígíí
 * Norwegian: meteor
 * Pali: ukkā
 * Pashto: اسماني تيږه, شهاب
 * Persian:, , نیزک
 * Polish:, spadająca gwiazda
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dreag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: метеор
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bulalakaw
 * Tajik: метеор, шиҳоб
 * Thai: ดาวตก, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: meteor
 * Ukrainian: метео́р
 * Urdu: الکا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: seren wib

Verb

 * 1)  To move at great speed.

Noun

 * 1) meteor fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   a fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere

Etymology
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