starfalls

Noun

starfall (countable and uncountable, plural starfalls)

1. (rare) A great number of stars descending downward within outer space or the atmosphere; a meteor shower.
   • It may not be uninteresting to state that a brilliant and persistent rain of meteors, observed on the same November night both here and at Muscat, has been regarded as the certain sign and portent of ills present and to come, by Arabs in high places, who associate the troubles in the interior and...1855, Royal Geographical Society, Proceedings and Monthly Record of Geography, London, pages 128–129
2. The act of landing on a star.
   • That was just a guess. Man had leaped into space with a new drive, had made starfalls on Procyon, 61 Cygni, Sirius, Altair, all within the fifteen light-year range of the first generation of engines.1970, John Rackham, Danger from Vega, D. Dodson, →ISBN, pages 35–36
3. (uncountable) Dark night; the time when stars become visible.
   • And how shall Philomel, by song oppressed, At starfall seek to lure me from my rest, When haply, lost in slumber, I may hear Young Cupid harping in that clovered breast?1912, Norman Gale, Song in September, page 99
4. (uncountable) The time when a shooting star or meteor shower occurs.
   • "Wizard Whiterage was supposed to meet us at the summit of Doom at starfall,” said Zephyr.2017, Antonia Rapheal, The Chronicles of Arcanilius: Origin Stories