Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Twilight; gloaming.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gloaming.
- To grow dark: as, it begins to gloam.
- 2. To be sullen; gloom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be sullen or morose.
- noun rare The twilight; gloaming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
gloaming ,twilight
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"gloam" is the word from the crossword puzzle that we couldn't figure out! so we made up the word g'voam instead.
whatever the morning version of "the gloaming" is... Happy 2008
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Sitting up on one of the lion sculptures, alone in the dusky gloam, Rovender Kitt stared out at the skies as the top of the sun sank below the inky landscape.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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The bullet from nowhere, the theody in the gloam, the silent stones: a true mystery and its answer are one.
May 2005: Nick Tosches on Arnold Rothstein Tosches, Nick 2005
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In the gloam, her teeth shone as green as grass, and her ancient monkey head was surmounted by a souffle of a cap.
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In the gloam, I made a search for such but found none.
Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999
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And now President Ford, eager for the historic, enters the mist-heavy gloam of "foreign policy."
A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam Barraclough, Geoffrey 1975
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To everything around the place, an 'in the twilight gloam
The Path to Home 1920
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But when a thunder storm comes up, Ma sits an 'shivers in the gloam
A Heap O' Livin' 1920
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Ungathered toys; our hearth-light cut the gloam; 10
Apparition 1920
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Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam.
bookhling commented on the word gloam
So this is what to call the time. Now I know.
July 17, 2008
shevek commented on the word gloam
Is there an analogous word for the time right before dawn?
July 17, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word gloam
Pre-dawn? Antelucan? (ante + lux)
July 17, 2008