All meteor synonyms

noun meteor

• meteoroid — any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.
• shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
• comet — A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
• asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
• fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
• falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
• bolide — a large exceptionally bright meteor that often explodes
• craze — If there is a craze for something, it is very popular for a short time.
• fad — a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
• buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
• flare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
• firework — Often, fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.
• torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
• meme — a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. a cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., that is spread via the Internet and often altered in a creative or humorous way.