Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See meteor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a class of meteors which appear as luminous points shooting or darting through larger or smaller arcs of the sky, and followed by long trains of light. They are observable in the night sky throughout the year. Also called shooting-star.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy A meteor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Astron.) See Shooting star.
Examples
“And behold, he came forth to the duello as he were a vast mountain, with his fires flaming and his smoke spireing, and shot at me a falling star of fire; but I swerved from it and it missed me.”
“ One clump of thatch fell lazily through the blackness, like a falling star extinguishing itself, or a burning alphabetic vowel swallowed by watery silence, or a firebird plunging into a suicidal dive in a dark nameless lake.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘falling star’.
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Fall
fall, fall in with, fall in love, The Fall, Fallen Angel, fallen angel, nuclear fallout, Things Fall Apart, waterfall, Falling Water, fall apart, falling and 55 more...
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Stars
star, gold star, superstar, Star Wars, Star Trek, star chart, five-pointed star, six-pointed star, eight-pointed star, Star Jones, Starbuck, Starbucks and 47 more...
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excelsior
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior! - Longfellowwood shavings, lofty, heights, motto, 24 lines to the inch, falchion, spectral glaciers, falling star, Cinclodes excelsior, hornero, Paracelsus, parcels and 18 more...
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Make a Wish
Times, events, or things that might cause someone to tell you to make a wish. (Some of these come from my Latvian relations.)
falling star, new moon (after b..., wishbone, pendant touching ..., magic lamp, guessing which ey..., blowing out the c..., wishing well, monkey's paw
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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Benandanti
All things Light
aureole, aura, aurora borealis, aglow, lucent, lambent, radiant, bright, burn, fire, solstice, brazier and 94 more...
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✿
adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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Romanesque
wth
downtrodden, skeletal, zoomorphic, lionhearted, lionism, purr, meow, pomagrant, amphetamine, �?��??り�?�, prozac, heroin and 31 more...
Tweets
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gangerh HaHaHa!
Jan 10, 2012
ruzuzu Gangerh! I just got that. :-) Jan 10, 2012
fbharjo What a dizzine (disney) star! Making a star fall into a wind fall? Turning stardust into golddust? Great joke , Ruzuzu! Jan 9, 2012
gangerh Ha! I like it.
But how long was it in your email before you got it? Jan 9, 2012
ruzuzu I just got this joke in an e-mail:
King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of
war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the
Euphrates, the most valuable diamond in the ancient world. Desperate, he
went to Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.
Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it."
"But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested. " Don 't you
know who I am? I am the king!"
Croesus replied, "When you wish to pawn a Star, makes no difference who you are." Jan 9, 2012
treeseed falling star is a folk name for a meteor. It appears in the song Catch a Falling Star by Paul Vance that was recorded and popularized by Perry Como.
"Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket,
Never let it fade away!
Catch a falling star an’ put it in your pocket,
Save it for a rainy day!
For love may come an' tap you on the shoulder,
Some star-less night!
Just in case you feel you wanna’ hold her,
You’ll have a pocketful of starlight!
" Jan 20, 2008