bolide
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of bolide
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- An extremely bright meteor.
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noun
- An extremely bright meteor.
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Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth.
“The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.”
- A fireball.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolis.
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