Plural of meteor
regular plural
The plural of meteor is meteors.
Forms of meteor
| Singular | meteor /ˈmiːtɪ.ə/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | meteors |
| Countable | countable |
Meteors in a sentence
- Meteors scatter when they fall, so we soon realized we were seeing something else.2001, Philip L. Rife, America's Nightmare Monsters, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry star shower
- Most meteors appear as faint streaks in the sky.2023 December 13, Carrie Hodgin, Brian Slocum, “When is the Best Time to View the Meteor Shower? Everything to Know about the Geminids…. From the entry visualize
- Shooting stars, meteors, and bizarre occurrences were commonplace.2013, "Pete", The Mexican Fisherman, page 45. From the entry 10.0
- They did happen around me; they were the meteors that landed (apparently quite often) in everyone’s hypergreen backyard but mine.2000, Jesse Green, The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry hypergreen
- Since the perspective of the observer is just one lakhth part of the earth’s atmosphere, about one million visible meteors fall on earth every hour.2002 September, Rajendra Kumar ‘Rajiv’, “The Discovery of Meteors and Meteor Showers”, in World-Famous Discoveries, 18th edition, New…. From the entry lakhth
Meaning of meteor
- noun 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).
- noun 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.
- noun A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
Questions about the plural of meteor
- What is the plural of meteor?
- The plural of meteor is meteors.
- Is meteor countable?
- Meteor is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: meteor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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