meteor

/ˈmiːtiɔɹ/

nounme · te · or

Think: “ME TElls ORbits” — a ME-te-or is something from space you might see streaking along an orbit path.

Yes, it's meteor. Spell it ME + TE + OR: meteor (not *meter*). Keep the second vowel as **eo**.

Definitions

  1. nouna bright streak of light seen in the sky when a piece of space rock burns up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere; a “shooting star.”
  2. nounthe small piece of rock or metal from space that causes that streak of light (often used loosely; more precisely, the object in space is a meteoroid, and if it reaches the ground it is a meteorite).

Examples

  • “We saw a meteor flash across the sky during the camping trip.”
  • “The science museum displayed a meteor sample and explained how it formed.”
  • “A meteor shower can produce dozens of meteors in a single hour.”

Synonyms

shooting starfireballbolidestreak of light

Translations

ES meteoroPT meteoroFR météore

Common misspellings

metermetormeteourmeteorhmeteermeteormeteör

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