Meaning of GLOAMING
| Pronunciation: | | 'glowming
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| | Definition: | | [n] the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" |
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| | Synonyms: | | dusk, evenfall, fall, nightfall, twilight |
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| | See Also: | | eve, evening, eventide, hour, night, time of day | |
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| | Definition: | | \Gloam"ing\, n. [See {Gloom}.]
1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of
Eng., and in poetry.] --Hogg.
2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] --J. Still.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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