n. Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth
n. An extremely bright meteor
n. A fireball
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A kind of meteor; a bolis.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A brilliant meteor.
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n. an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)
Word Usage
""There's a very good chance it was what we call a bolide, which is a meteorite crossing the sky at extremely quick velocity -- very, very fast -- and as it hits the atmosphere at about"