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meteor

noun
🔊/ˈmiːtiə(r)/, 🔊/ˈmiːtiɔː(r)/
🔊/ˈmiːtiər/, 🔊/ˈmiːtiɔːr/
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  1. 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流星
    • a meteor shower流星雨
    see also shooting starTopics Spacec1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMeteor is used before these nouns:
    • crater
    • shower
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting any atmospheric phenomenon): from modern Latin meteorum, from Greek meteōron, neuter (used as a noun) of meteōros ‘lofty’.