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gloaming

[ gloh-ming ]

noun



gloaming

/ ˈɡləʊmɪŋ /

noun

  1. poetic.
    twilight or dusk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gloaming1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English gloming, Old English glōmung, derivative of glōm “twilight”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gloaming1

Old English glōmung, from glōm; related to Old Norse glāmr moon
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Example Sentences

The camera turns to follow them as, joined by the ad hoc choir on the porch, they cross a vast meadow in the gloaming, singing lustily all the while.

On muddy embankments in gloaming forest, you might feel your knees wobble as adolescent gorillas inch to within a foot of where you stand to paw your neighbor’s tripod.

But that great-come-and-get-it day-is still shimmering in the mists of the gloaming.

To his left, in the gloaming, was a man staring straight at the crowd like a secret serviceman looking for assassins.

She tried to peer through the gloaming, and feared her father and mother would mark her troubled eagerness and guess its cause.

And so they had still a peaceful gloaming, these two old people, when their changeful day of life was drawing to a close.

Only it was like the dawn rather than the gloaming, Katie said, because of the soft brightness that shone on them both.

The figure of a man, who in the gray gloaming looked well-dressed, was approaching Mysie, and she was slowly moving to meet him.

In the gray quick gloaming the moors and the hills, viewed from the train, seemed to him a country without hope.

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