Definitions for bolides

bolides bo·lide

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

Bolides is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in bolides (bdeilos).

Definitions for bolides

noun

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

Origin of bolides

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

Examples for bolides

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bolides
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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