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METEOR SHOWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere
Synonyms:
meteor shower; meteor stream
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("meteor shower" is a kind of...):
atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)
Meronyms (parts of "meteor shower"):
meteor; shooting star (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)
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