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noun
Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, vespers, blue hour, crepusculum, dimmet, evenglome, gloaming, tweenlight, twilight
Antonyms: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
noun
Sullenness; melancholy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of gloam
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the time of day immediately following sunset
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: twilight, dusk, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hour, time of day
Narrower terms: night
History
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."
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
