BOLIDE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)

Synonyms:

bolide; fireball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("bolide" is a kind of...):

meteor; shooting star (a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode)

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