starfall
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.66 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A great number of stars descending downward within outer space or the atmosphere; a meteor shower.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It may not be uninteresting to state that a brilliant and persistent rain of meteors, observed on the same November night both here and at Muscat, has been regarded as the certain sign and portent of ills present and to come, by Arabs in high places, who associate the troubles in the interior and along the Arabian coast with this splendid starfall."
- "Although there was no display of the November meteors last year [1867] in any part of Europe, yet the calculations of astronomers respecting the hour and character of the starfall accorded very closely with the results actually observed."
- "More than thirty-four thousand stars fell in one hour, and the starfall continued all night."
- "That was just a guess. Man had leaped into space with a new drive, had made starfalls on Procyon, 61 Cygni, Sirius, Altair, all within the fifteen light-year range of the first generation of engines."
- "And how shall Philomel, by song oppressed, At starfall seek to lure me from my rest, When haply, lost in slumber, I may hear Young Cupid harping in that clovered breast?"
- "It is quiet and fire of dreams, and at the last/The gathering from wild rushes at starfall/Their bed and weary sleep."
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Astronomy.