shooting star

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsmeteor

   Broaderlight

   Narrowerbolide

   Part ofmeteor shower

Questions about shooting star

What does shooting star mean?

shooting star means "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".

What is another word for shooting star?

Close synonyms include meteor. 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 shooting star a common word?

shooting star 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.