bolide
Meanings
Plural: bolides
Noun
- an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)
- An extremely bright meteor.
- Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth.
- A fireball.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French bolide, from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”). Doublet of bolis.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
bolide is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbolide is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bolide is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
bolide is a valid Words With Friends word