All bolide synonyms
bo·lide
B b noun bolide
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- comet — A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
- fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- meteorite — a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.
- meteoroid — any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.