gloaming
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈɡloʊmɪŋ/
- Literature
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- Children love to play outside in the gloaming, when the air is cool and the day is winding down.
- fine gloaming
And so with, but I've also got to be able to make the product work for other people who don't know what the gloaming is.
- And so with, but I've also got to be able to make the product work for other people who don't know what the gloaming is.
Examples
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The stars rose from the eastern horizon, resurrected in the gloaming.
Fiction book (1997) -
There in the gloaming they sat, their faces alight with mischief, but all the while his heart was singing.
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"Late in the afternoon of the day before I left to go back to New York, Dad stared out the window at the lake and said sadly, 'The gloaming of the day is the hardest part.'"
Blog text (2) -
Sandy struck in the gloaming of autumn, when crisp nights succumb to bitter cold.
Blog text (13) -
At first, she thought he had disappeared, but she found him standing in the gloaming, gazing blankly at the dark roses climbing up the stone wall.
Fiction book (1994) -
It is early evening, and the shortening daylight lapses into a dim gloaming.
Fiction book (2000) -
The darkness wasn't confined to the edge of town, but there was something startling about seeing it there, at the edge of the island, on the bikeway, in the gloaming.
Blog text (26) -
The huge Clay Banks on its eastern shore loomed grey and somber in the shadowy gloaming, never again to reflect a gleam of signal or campfire.
Academic text (1995) -
In the gloaming, the hills were bathed in a soft, fading light.
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As the gloaming descended, the stars began to twinkle in the darkening sky.
Synonyms
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1.0
The time just after the sun goes down before it is fully dark
36
2.4
Soft light in the sky just before sunrise or after sunset
1
3.5
The time after the sun goes down when the sky is partly light
The time after sunset when the sky is not dark yet
The time after sunset when it is partly dark
Dim light in the sky just after sunset
The time just after sunset when the sky gets dark
The time just before it becomes dark
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Surface Forms
Morphology
gloaming = gloam (semi-transparent) = gloam + ing
The word is formed from the archaic base 'gloam' plus '-ing', but the noun has become a fixed poetic term for twilight rather than a fully productive modern derivation.
Etymology
Gloaming comes from an old English root gloam, which meant 'twilight' and is related to the common word glow. So think of the soft glow of the sky as day turns to night, and you will remember that gloaming means the time just after sunset.