gloaming n : the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

English

Etymology

Old English glōmung.

Pronunciation

• italbrac RP /ˈgləʊmɪŋ/
• italbrac US /ˈgloʊmɪŋ/
• Rhymes with: -əʊmɪŋ

Noun

gloaming

1. twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening; dusk

Quotations

• 1898 — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book 1, ch 6

  You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming...

• 2001 — David Lodge, Thinks...

  I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.

Synonyms

• crepuscule, sundown, twilight, vespers

Antonyms

• dawn, daybreak

Translations

Related terms

• gloom

Gloaming may refer to:

• Gloaming, or twilight, the time after sunset and before dark

• Gloaming (horse), a famous Australian-bred racehorse
• The Gloaming, the subtitle of Radiohead's album Hail to the Thief and the title of one of its tracks

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