Usually means: Meteor burning through Earth's atmosphere.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word falling star:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. falling star: Merriam-Webster
  2. falling star: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. falling star: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. falling star: Collins English Dictionary
  5. falling star: Wordnik
  6. falling star: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. falling star: Wiktionary
  8. falling star: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. falling star: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Falling star, falling star: Dictionary.com
  11. Falling star (disambiguation), Falling star, The Falling Star (album), The Falling Star: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. falling-star: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. falling star: FreeDictionary.org
  14. falling star: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. falling star: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Falling Star (episode), falling star: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. falling star: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. FALLING STAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Falling Star: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (falling star)

▸ noun:  (astronomy) A meteor.

Similar:
field star, star, fixed star, stardust, wandering star, shell star, standard star, evening star, meteoroscope, starspot, more...

Opposite:
shooting star, meteor, meteorite

Types:
meteor, meteorite, meteoroid, more...

Phrases:
Catch a Falling Star, more...

Adjectives:
early, primary, planetesimal, circumstellar, stellar, stellular, circumplanetary, starly, late, intercloud, galactic

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Similar:
field star, star, fixed star, stardust, wandering star, shell star, standard star, evening star, meteoroscope, starspot, more...

Opposite:
shooting star, meteor, meteorite

Types:
meteor, meteorite, meteoroid, more...

Phrases:
Catch a Falling Star, more...

Adjectives:
early, primary, planetesimal, circumstellar, stellar, stellular, circumplanetary, starly, late, intercloud, galactic



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