Word.ws English Dictionary

meteors

meteors is the plural of meteor.

meteors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of meteor.

Meaning of meteor

Noun

meteor (plural meteors)

  1. An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
    • Europe, where the Sun dares ſcarce appeare,
      For freezing Meteors and congealed cold: […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  2. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star.
  3. A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
  4. A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
  5. (figuratively) Any short-lived source of wonderment.

See all 6 meanings of meteor

Questions about meteors

What is meteors the plural of?
Meteors is the plural of meteor.

Words near meteors in the dictionary

  1. meteoroscopy
  2. meteorosensitive
  3. meteorosensitivity
  4. meteorosophistical
  5. meteorous
  6. meteors
  7. meteorwrong
  8. meteorwrongs
  9. meteosensitive
  10. meteosensitivity
  11. meteotsunami

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meteors (page history and authors); meteor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “meteors.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/meteors. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.