meteor
noun /ˈmiːtiə(r)/, /ˈmiːtiɔː(r)/
/ˈmiːtiər/, /ˈmiːtiɔːr/
- a piece of rock from outer space that makes a bright line across the night sky as it burns up while falling through the earth’s atmosphere
- a meteor shower
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMeteor is used before these nouns:- crater
- shower
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting any atmospheric phenomenon): from modern Latin meteorum, from Greek meteōron, neuter (used as a noun) of meteōros ‘lofty’.