meteor

Other forms of meteor

plural

meteors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meteor

What does meteor mean?

meteor means "(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meteor?

meteor has 3 syllables: me-te-or. The stress falls on "me". In IPA it is /ˈmitiɚ/.

What is another word for meteor?

Close synonyms include meteoroid, shooting star. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meteor a common word?

meteor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.