Word "METEOR" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
Synonyms:
meteoroid

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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
Synonyms:
shooting star

Crossword Clues for METEOR

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Celestial phenomenon The Times Concise 13 Mar 2026
Shooting star Newsday 11 Mar 2026
Remote explosion of distant rock (6) Puzzler Cryptic 04 Feb 2026
Shooting star
Shooting star Universal 18 Dec 2025
Another term for a shooting star (6) The Guardian Weekend 13 Dec 2025
Shooting star
Terribly remote celestial object (6) Mirror Cryptic 14 Nov 2025
Shooting star (6) Mirror Quick 14 Nov 2025
Shower component, sometimes Wall Street Journal 05 Nov 2025
Shooting star (6) Mirror Quick 23 Oct 2025
Terribly remote celestial object (6) Mirror Cryptic 23 Oct 2025
Shooting star USA Today 20 Oct 2025
Streak of light in the night sky USA Today 10 Oct 2025
Shooting star (6) Mirror Classic 22 Sep 2025
Shower participant? Eugene Sheffer 20 Sep 2025
Streaker puts nothing in parking device (6) The Sun Two Speed 03 Sep 2025
Something in a shower Newsday 07 Aug 2025
Shooting star The Times Specialist 07 Jul 2025
Remote spinning object in space The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Jul 2025
Streak of light in the sky also called a shooting or falling star
Space traveller came across powdered ore (6)
Heavenly body The Telegraph Quick 30 May 2025
Shower component? Universal 07 May 2025
Word from Greek for "thing in the air" Newsday 03 May 2025
Soldiers after deal for shooter? The Times Cryptic 24 Apr 2025
Heavenly body The Sun Two Speed 01 Apr 2025
Falling star, remote, exploded The Sun Two Speed 01 Apr 2025
Shooting star to give out gold (6) Puzzler Cryptic 28 Mar 2025
Part of a celestial shower Commuter 19 Mar 2025
Shooting star Commuter 18 Mar 2025
Shooting star Mirror Quick 13 Mar 2025
Terribly remote celestial object (6) Mirror Cryptic 13 Mar 2025
Remote sort of space rock (6)
Shooting star New York Times 10 Mar 2025
Heavenly body's heavier, when picked up? (6)
Cat catching 18 out, heavenly sight (6,6) The Guardian Cryptic 26 Feb 2025
Recording device protecting round space-traveller (6)
Celestial body
Run into Winnie the Pooh's friend - they say he's a shooting star (6)
Detection device captures old body in space (6)
Space traveller from remote parts
It came from outer space and tore 'em to shreds! (6)
Shooting star Commuter 06 Jan 2025
Shooting star in Rome dancing around hollow tree (6)
Remote form of heavenly body (6)
Small piece of rock or metal that has entered the earth's atmosphere from space (6)
Shooting star USA Today 28 Dec 2024
Celestial streak of light (6)
Incredibly remote object seen in space The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Dec 2024
Fiery heavenly body
Fireball more disastrous, full of energy and temperature
Body travelling through space (6)
1979 disaster movie starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood (6)
Shooting star The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 05 Nov 2024
Celestial body
Strangely remote shooting star (6)
Remote (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 18 Oct 2024
Small body travelling through space (6)
Bright, moving heavenly body (6) Puzzler Backwords 01 Oct 2024
Strangely remote star (6)
Incredibly remote celestial body (6)
Shooting star
Small mass of matter from space (6)
Shooting star The Telegraph Quick 22 Sep 2024
Bright moving body known as a shooting star (6)
Small body of rock or metal that produces a streak of light when it enters Earth's atmosphere (6)
One in shower more confused about alien The Sun Two Speed 24 Aug 2024
Shooting star The Sun Two Speed 24 Aug 2024
Shooting star to give out gold (6) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Aug 2024
Sky light? (6) The Guardian Quick 28 Jul 2024
Sky light? (6) The Guardian Quick 27 Jul 2024
1979 action film starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood Mirror Quiz 22 Jul 2024
Celestial body with a fiery tail
Space traveller satisfied with detour avoiding odd places The Times Cryptic 13 Jul 2024
A down to earth sort of shower (6)
Mike with energy tore off clothes, showing heavenly body The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jul 2024
Shower unit Eugene Sheffer 21 Jun 2024
Its heavenly career is soon burnt out (6)
What creates a line for the shower? New York Times 08 Jun 2024
Hypatia tore apart rock star? (6)
Shooting star Commuter 16 May 2024
A ____ shower has no rain
More than half of weather study is of something in a shower (6)
I object to the alien returning with alternative space rock (6)
An alien in Rome with a fiery streak!
Shooting star Mirror Classic 21 Mar 2024
A temporary skylight? (6)
Streaker in the sky LA Times Daily 14 Mar 2024
Star that's possibly remote (6)
Shooting star The Times Concise 11 Mar 2024
Bright moving body also known as a shooting star (6)
Eccentric space-traveller
One appears in a shower in remote explosion (6)
Sky streak Wall Street Journal 02 Mar 2024
Work out theorem? Hard going for space traveller (6)
More about taking alien to be a distant visitor (6)
Shooting star came across pulverised ore (6)
Shooting star The Telegraph Quick 07 Feb 2024
Falling star Universal 05 Feb 2024
Celestial shooter
Falling star Premier Sunday 31 Dec 2023
Spectacular show from space, ___ shower
Weather office that ruminates about particular shower (6)
Streak of light that can be found in a celestial shower The Guardian Weekend 09 Dec 2023
Streak of light that can be found in a celestial shower (6)
Shooting star in Spielberg film set in ruins of Rome (6)
Celestial body
Remote sort of rock from outer space (6) Puzzler Cryptic 11 Nov 2023
Shooting star USA Today 02 Nov 2023
Ford ___, automobile first sold in 1949 whose name is an alias for "shooting star"
Component of a shower Wall Street Journal 25 Oct 2023
Hand out gold shower component? The Times Cryptic 11 Sep 2023
___ shower (celestial event) USA Today 04 Sep 2023
Space rock in a "shower"
Shooting star USA Today 19 May 2023
Shower element LA Times Daily 11 Mar 2023
Falling star Universal 08 Feb 2023
Shooting star Newsday 25 Dec 2022
Shooting star
Streak of light encountered upset small deer The Times Cryptic 06 Oct 2022
Shooting star The Times Concise 01 Jul 2022
Shooting star The Telegraph Quick 15 Jun 2022
Came across oriental gold in a fiery streak 
Measuring device capturing old falling star The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Apr 2022
Shooting star The Times Concise 05 Mar 2022
Night light? The Guardian Quick 01 Feb 2022
Shooting star Newsday 18 Jan 2022
Nighttime streaker Wall Street Journal 08 Jan 2022
Setter on small hill taking in final glimpse of shooting star
Serving up caviar every second it seems for falling star
Encounter AA Milne character, said to be a fireball
Incredibly remote shooting star The Times Cryptic 18 Oct 2021
Shooting star, actually Universal 11 Oct 2021
Crater creator Newsday 26 Sep 2021
Power source for the first Green Lantern New York Times 08 Sep 2021
Part of an astronomical shower Universal 17 Aug 2021
One dazzling but short-lived and strangely remote
Heavenly body – not as slim, some might say
Nighttime streaker? Universal 25 Jul 2021
Space object in a shower Universal 23 Jun 2021
Shower unit Eugene Sheffer 17 Jun 2021
Part of a celestial shower USA Today 11 May 2021
Visitor ran into revolting eggs
Shooting star Newsday 23 Mar 2021
Shooting star The Times Concise 18 Mar 2021
Disintegration of remote extraterrestrial rock
Streaker puts nothing in parking device The Sun Two Speed 08 Mar 2021
Shooting star The Sun Two Speed 08 Mar 2021
One in shower more confused about alien The Sun Two Speed 30 Jan 2021
Part of some showers Newsday 21 Jan 2021
Hot streak? New York Times 15 Jan 2021
Vaporizing rock
One in a shower Wall Street Journal 02 Jan 2021
Falling star The Telegraph Quick 07 Dec 2020
Saw emergency room cover ordinary streak of light
It may have a big impact
It causes a streak of light in the night sky
Falling star made the other all gutted The Telegraph Toughie 22 Oct 2020
Recording equipment orbiting globe for space intruder
Shooting star
Falling star, remote, exploded The Sun Two Speed 10 Aug 2020
Streaker New York Times 01 Aug 2020
Measuring device on both sides of old Comet
Astronomical streaker New York Times 23 Jun 2020
Shooting star The Telegraph Quick 16 May 2020
Thing in a shower Eugene Sheffer 07 May 2020
Celestial body LA Times Daily 06 May 2020
Celestial body
Falling star to encounter gloomy fellow on the radio
Sky streaker Thomas Joseph 07 Apr 2020
Symbol of sudden, brilliant success New York Times 07 Apr 2020
Night streaker
Night streaker LA Times Daily 19 Mar 2020
Fighter once assembled eastern troops
Crater creator Newsday 19 Jan 2020
Shooting star
Shooting star LA Times Daily 13 Nov 2019
Celestial shower component
Celestial shower component LA Times Daily 21 Oct 2019
Sky streaker Wall Street Journal 09 Oct 2019
Celestial shower unit USA Today 08 Oct 2019
Falling star
Shooting star acting remote
Came upon hesitancy over old one hurtling
What's remote, hurtling?
Boundary stone, yellow lump of rock
Item in a shower Wall Street Journal 01 Jun 2019
What's remote, hurtling?
Shooting star New York Times 29 Apr 2019
Crater maker Universal 21 Mar 2019
Metaphor for overnight success New York Times 16 Mar 2019
Remote operated space missile 
Sky streaker
Shower item
Item in a shower
Celestial shower unit
Metaphor for overnight success
Shooting star
Crater maker
Celestial shower component
Rocklike object encountered by extremely fragile men
Crash lander on Earth Universal 08 Dec 2018
Shooting star in remote adaptation
Hunk in a shower?
Falling star Eugene Sheffer 31 Aug 2018
Shooting star Thomas Joseph 28 Aug 2018
Came into contact with source of earthly or heavenly body
Rock from space Universal 14 Aug 2018
Streak in the night sky Wall Street Journal 18 Jun 2018
Flash in a shower Wall Street Journal 21 Apr 2018
Comet fragment, perhaps LA Times Daily 05 Apr 2018
Comet fragment, perhaps
Shower component Wall Street Journal 10 Mar 2018
What measures oxygen in rapid star The Sun Two Speed 20 Feb 2018
Flash in a shower
Comet fragment, perhaps
Hunk in a shower?
Streak in the night sky
Crash lander on Earth
Rock from space
Shooting star Universal 18 Nov 2017
Shower component
Space traveller was introduced to The Queen, holding top of orb
Incredibly remote object seen in space The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Sep 2017
Rock in space Universal 10 Aug 2017
Shower participant Universal 30 Jul 2017
Streaking space object Universal 25 Jul 2017
Atmospheric streaker Family Time 14 May 2017
Remote controlled shooting star!
Streak in the night
Extraordinarily remote heavenly body The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Jan 2017
Shower component
Rock in space
Shooting star
Shower participant
Streaking space object
With nothing to hide, one indicating a streaker?
Unusually remote shooting star
Shower component New York Times 16 Jul 2016
Remote production for falling star
Streak of light in the night sky
Remote (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 06 Feb 2016
Alien inside more unusual body from space The Sun Two Speed 11 Jan 2016
Heavenly body The Sun Two Speed 11 Jan 2016
Crater causer Universal 04 Jan 2016
Crater causer
Shower component
Remote sort of rock from outer space The Sun Two Speed 12 Nov 2015
Metaphor for a blazing success New York Times 22 Oct 2015
Piece of matter in the solar system
Part of some showers New York Times 13 Sep 2015
Shower component LA Times Daily 29 Aug 2015
Streaker at night New York Times 19 Aug 2015
Metaphor for a sudden success New York Times 28 Jun 2015
Note singer pouring out heart, dazzling phenomenon
Celestial streaker
Mysterious remote celestial object
Metaphor for a sudden success
Metaphor for a blazing success
Streaker at night
Part of some showers
Part of some showers
Celestial streaker
Nothing in measuring device can show falling star
Nothing in measuring device can show falling star
Wartime flyer made contact with English soldiers
Crater causer
Celestial streaker
Falling star
Shooting star
Streaker during a shower
Astronomer's sighting
One in a shower
Luminary in a late-night show?
Astronomical sighting
Streaker in the sky
Streaker in a shower
Hunk noted for streaking
Planetary threat in some sci-fi films
High streaker
One seen in a shower
Streaker in a shower
High streaker
Sky streaker
Sky streaker
Shower head, maybe
Shower head, maybe
One of a group of streakers
Sky streaker
Sky streaker
Atmospheric streaker
Part of some showers
Luminous trail in the sky
Falling star
Falling star
Component of some showers
Streaker in space
Earth threat in some sci-fi films
Sort of shower
Earth threat in some sci-fi films
Part of a celestial shower
Space streaker
Cause of a crater, perhaps
Falling rock, of sorts
Space streaker
Part of a celestial shower
One seen streaking
Streaker with a tail
Shooting star
Celestial streaker
Crater causer
Celestial streaker
Shooting star
Crater maker
Streaker in space
Streaker in space
Shooting star
Body in a shower?
Overnight success
Body in a shower?
Shower component
One in a shower
One in a shower
Shooting star
Shower participant
Heavenly streaker
Crater creator
Falling star
Space rock
Falling star
Shower participant?
Component of some showers
Shooting star
Space streaker
Shooting star
Part of a shower scene
Falling star
Heavenly sight
Heavenly sight
Outer-space traveler
Falling star
Space traveler
One in a shower?
Streak in the sky
Part of a shower, maybe
Part of a shower, maybe
Sort of shower
Fast-moving body
Kind of shower
Shower part
Atmospheric streaker
Atmospheric streaker
Luminous trail in the sky
Type of shower
6/30/08 Siberia lander
This crossword setter tore off — a streaker?
Part of a shower scene?
Space shower component
Shower item?
Shooting star
One in a shower?
Incredibly remote shooting star
'79 disaster flick
Earth threatener
Shower participant?
Fiery streak in the sky
Temporary skylight?
Kind of shower
Telescopist's sighting
Bolide
Atmospheric phenomenon
Sky sight
Invader from outer space.
Space "traveler"
Spaceship peril.
Fireball.
One suspect in the Flying Saucer Mystery.
Shooting star.
Space traveler.
Body from outer space.
Sky show.
Night sky sight.
Visitor from outer space.
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