a piece of rock from outer space that makes a bright line across the night sky as it burns up while falling through the earth’s atmosphere 流星 a meteor shower 流星雨
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMeteor is used before these nouns:- crater
- shower
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting any atmospheric phenomenon): from modern Latin meteorum, from Greek meteōron, neuter (used as a noun) of meteōros ‘lofty’.