Definitions for bolide

bolide bo·lide

Spelling: [boh-lahyd, -lid]
IPA: /ˈboʊ laɪd, -lɪd/

Bolide is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in bolide (bdeilo).

Definitions for bolide

noun

  1. a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.

Origin of bolide

1850-55; French Greek bolid- (stem of bolís) missile

Examples for bolide

The bolide was not white-hot, then, as when it passed over Thrawn Island.

Everybody's over at the tracking station, arguing about the bolide that went over last night.

But the plane saw the bolide as it struck the sea, and huge masses of steam and spray arose.

He'd predicted to the minute, and almost to the mile, the landing of the bolide of the night before.

It said blandly that a bolide—a slow-moving, large meteoric object—had been observed by radar to be descending to earth.

Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.

The bolide; she and the Enterprise had made a raid on Ithunn.

This probably refers to an unusually large “bolide” or “fireball.”

"And a bolide fell right there a couple of nights ago," said Terry irrelevantly.

The bolide's course should be three hundred fifty degrees, not quite on a north-south line.

Word Value for bolide
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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