noun

• A number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky at a particular date each year, due to the earth regularly passing through them at that position in its orbit.

  ‘The Leonid meteor shower, which radiates from the so-called sickle of Leo, displays a double peak this year.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A meteor shower occurs when Earth crosses this stream of debris.’
  • ‘Although summer is the best time to view the most dramatic showers, you may still be able to see the Geminids, a meteor shower that typically shows up around the middle of December.’
  • ‘It was a rare thirty-year occurrence, a large meteor shower as bright and wonderful as any fireworks display.’
  • ‘But then you called me, one month after the birthday party, and invited me to watch the meteor shower.’