meteor

See also Meteor, and meteor.

English

Etymology

Of Middle English origin, derived from the Latin meteorum, from the Ancient Greek μετέωρον (meteōron), from μετέωρος (meteōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (meta, “in the midst of, among, between”) + ἀείρω (aeiro, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).

Noun

meteor (plural meteors)

1. (archaic) 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. (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
4. (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.

Quotations

• p. 1859 December, 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

Translations

streak of light

Armenian: ասուպ (hy) (asup) Bosnian: meteor (bs) m. Bulgarian: метеор (bg) (meteór) m. Catalan: meteor (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 流星 (zh) (liúxīng) Dutch: meteoriet (nl) Esperanto: meteoro (eo) Finnish: meteori (fi), tähdenlento (fi) French: météore (fr) m. German: Meteor (de) m. Greek: μετέωρο (el) (metéoro) n. Hungarian: hullócsillag (hu) Italian: meteora (it) f.

Japanese: 流星 (ja) (りゅうせい, ryūsei) Korean: 유성 (ko) (yuseong) (流星 (ko)) Navajo: sǫʼ nanidééhígíí Norwegian: meteor (no) m. Polish: meteor (pl) m., spadająca gwiazda (pl) f. Portuguese: meteoro (pt) m. Romanian: meteor (ro) Russian: метеор (ru) (meteór) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: метеор (sh) m. Roman: meteor (sh) m. Spanish: meteoro (es) m. Swedish: meteor (sv) c. Tagalog: bulalakaw (tl)

juggling prop

striking weapon

See also

asteroid comet falling star

shooting star Meteor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• remote

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Catalan

Noun

meteor m. (plural meteors)

1. meteor

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Polish

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Noun

meteor m.

1. (astronomy) meteor

Declension

    declension of meteor

	singular	plural
nominative	meteor	meteory
genitive	meteora	meteorów
dative	meteorowi	meteorom
accusative	meteor	meteory
instrumental	meteorem	meteorami
locative	meteorze	meteorach
vocative	meteorze	meteory

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /metěoːr/
• Hyphenation: me‧te‧or

Noun

metèōr m. (Cyrillic spelling метѐо̄р)

1. (astronomy) meteor

Declension

    declension of meteor

	singular	plural
nominative	metèōr	meteori
genitive	meteóra	meteora
dative	meteoru	meteorima
accusative	meteor	meteore
vocative	meteoru / meteore	meteori
locative	meteoru	meteorima
instrumental	meteorom	meteorima

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Swedish

Noun

meteor c.

1. meteor

Declension

Declension of meteor

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	meteor	meteoren	meteorer	meteorerna
genitive	meteors	meteorens	meteorers	meteorernas

Related terms

• meteorit

See also

• meteorologi