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METEOR SHOWER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does meteor shower mean?

• METEOR SHOWER (noun)
The noun METEOR SHOWER has 1 sense:

1. a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere

Familiarity information: METEOR SHOWER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• METEOR SHOWER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

meteor shower; meteor stream

Hypernyms ("meteor shower" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "meteor shower"):

meteor; shooting star (a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode)

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