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- Dictionarygloam·ing/ˈɡlōmiNG/
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- 1. twilight; dusk: literary "hundreds of lights are already shimmering in the gloaming"
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noun. gloam· ing ˈglō-miŋ. Synonyms of gloaming. : twilight, dusk. Did you know? If The Gloaming were a Stephen King thriller, the climax would undoubtedly take place at the crepuscular hour. But despite its ties to darkness, the origins of gloaming are less than shadowy.
the time of day when it is becoming dark but is not yet fully dark: in the gloaming I walked home in the gloaming, with the city lights coming on. Gloaming lasts a very short time here in the depths of winter. Synonyms. dusk. twilight. Fewer examples. The painting created the ambience of a city park in the gloaming, caught between night and day.
Gloaming definition: twilight; dusk. . See examples of GLOAMING used in a sentence.
A poetic word for "twilight," or the time of day immediately after the sun sets, is gloaming. The best thing about summer evenings is looking for twinkling fireflies in the gloaming.
gloaming in British English. (ˈɡləʊmɪŋ ) or gloam (ɡləʊm ) noun. poetic. twilight or dusk. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Old English glōmung, from glōm; related to Old Norse glāmr moon.
gloam·ing. (glō′mĭng) n. Twilight; dusk. [Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, alteration (probably influenced by æfnung, evening) of glōm, dusk; see ghel- in Indo-European roots .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Dec 12, 2020 · noun. ˈglōm. archaic. : twilight. Examples of gloam in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web Men will swarm the carcass, and begin tearing it apart in Lerwick’s midsummer gloam. The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'gloam.'
