gloaming
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gloaming
- /ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/ UK
- /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/ US
Rhymes with -əʊmɪŋ
Where it comes from
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
noun gloamings
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Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
Similar: crepuscule, glooming, vespers, blue hour, crepusculum, dimmet, evenglome, gloaming, tweenlight, twilight · Opposite: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
verb
- present participle and gerund of gloam
Translations
Every language
noun twilight
| Español | crepúsculo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 黃昏 /黄昏 huánghūn |
| Français | crépuscule, heure bleue |
| Italiano | imbrunire |
| Русский | су́мерки súmerki |
| Tiếng Việt | hoàng hôn |
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