meteor shower

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmeteor stream

   Broaderatmospheric phenomenon

   Partsmeteor

Questions about meteor shower

What does meteor shower mean?

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

What is another word for meteor shower?

Close synonyms include meteor stream. 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 shower a common word?

meteor shower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.