meteoric shower

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. meteor shower.

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Etymology

Origin of meteoric shower

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

While the precious fallout from this meteoric shower lay scattered on the surface of the moon, on Earth the planet's internal activity had churned it into the mantle too.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2013

"The theory is that after the core formed there was a meteoric shower that struck the Earth," says Willbold.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2013

So science has had to come up with an explanation, and the answer currently favoured is - a meteoric shower.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2013

Every earthquake, pestilence, revolution, violent thunderstorm, comet, meteoric shower, or extraordinary gleaming of the aurora borealis, startles them as a possible avant courier of the crack of doom.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

In 1868, in the great meteoric shower, she and her pupils recorded the paths of four thousand meteors, and gave valuable data of their height above the earth.

From Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah Knowles