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bolides

bolides is the plural of bolide.

bolides is the plural of bolis.

Meaning of bolide

Noun

bolide (plural bolides)

  1. An extremely bright meteor.
    Synonyms:
    fireball
  2. 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 1908.2004, Alan Harris, “SPACEGUARD REDUX, PUT TO TEST”, in Astrobiology Magazine
  3. A fireball.

Meaning of bolis

Noun

bolis (plural bolides)

  1. (archaic) A bolide or fireball (type of meteor)
    • A bolis appearing as large as an orange, with a train some yards in length, crossed Wrenbury, Cheshire, about 10 p.m. (p. 305). The observer was my brother, Mr. William Thomson, surgeon, Wrenbury, near Nantwich.1851, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report, volume 20, page 90
    Synonyms:
    bolide, fireball

Questions about bolides

What is bolides the plural of?
Bolides is the plural of bolide.

Words near bolides in the dictionary

  1. bolias
  2. Bolick
  3. Bolicks
  4. bolide
  5. bolidenite
  6. bolides
  7. bolidomonad
  8. bolidomonads
  9. bolidophycean
  10. bolidophyceans
  11. bolidophyte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolides (page history and authors); bolide (page history and authors); bolis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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