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gloaming

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Noun
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gloam=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

gloamingn. [See Gloom.].
  •  Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.  Hogg.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Sullenness; melancholy.  J. Still.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gloaming, n. poet. twilight; dusk.

Etymology
OE glomung f. glom twilight, rel. to GLOW

THESAURUS

gloaming

bad light, brown of dusk, brownness, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscule, darkishness, darksomeness, deadness, dim, dim light, dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, duskingtide, duskness, eventide, flatness, gloam, glooming, half-light, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, murk, murkiness, nightfall, owllight, partial darkness, semidark, somberness, twilight

ROGET THESAURUS

gloaming

Evening

N evening, eve, decline of day, fall of day, close of day, candlelight, candlelighting, eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour, sunset, sundown, going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime, afternoon, postmeridian, p, m, autumn, fall, fall of the leaf, autumnal equinox, Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer, midnight, dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night, winter, killing time, vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal, midnight, the outpost of advancing day, sable-vested Night, this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd.


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