meteoric

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

1 achieving success very quickly: a meteoric rise to fame * a meteoric career 2 connected with meteors: meteoric craters

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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meteoricEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus meteoricEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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metalled metallic metallurgist metallurgy metalwork metamorphose metamorphosis metaphor metaphorical metaphysics mete

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