WordRel.com

• (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere

  synonym	meteoroid
  derivation	meteoric
  domain topic	astronomyuranology
  hypernym	estraterrestrial bodyextraterrestrial object
  hyponym	meteor swarmmeteorite

• 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

  synonym	shooting star
  holo part	meteor showermeteor stream
  hypernym	lightvisible lightvisible radiation
  hyponym	bolidefireball