shooting star in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shooting star",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shooting stars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A shooting star is the light of a meteorite that you can see when it enters Earth's atmosphere and burns"
      ],
      "id": "simple-shooting_star-en-noun-NNpuSDuI",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shooting star"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shooting star",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shooting stars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shooting star is the light of a meteorite that you can see when it enters Earth's atmosphere and burns"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shooting star"
}

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"shooting star" meaning in English

Noun