gloaming
pronunciation
How to pronounce gloaming in British English:
UK [ˈgləʊmɪŋ]
How to pronounce gloaming in American English:
US [ˈgloʊmɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- the time of day immediately following sunset
Word Origin
- gloaming (n.)
- Old English glomung "twilight, the fall of evening," found but once (glossing Latin crepusculum), and formed (probably on model of æfning "evening") from glom "twilight," which is related to glowan "to glow" (hence "glow of sunrise or sunset"), from Proto-Germanic *glo- (see glow (v.)). Fell from currency except in Yorkshire dialect, but preserved in Scotland and reintroduced by Burns and other Scottish writers after 1785.
Example
- 1. Dusk is falling and you are roaming in the gloaming .
- 2. Leaving the robin to sing in the gloaming .
- 3. We made it in 25 minutes , hurtling through the gloaming like the two cyclists of the apocalypse .
- 4. Dawn comes and you see its path-the glistening leaf , the gloaming stem , the limp , blackening garden vine .
- 5. People crowed against the umbilical of the mountain , looking for the real sensibility of human being given by nature , to enjoy the agreeable sense of breeze blows the boats at eve and gloaming tries to stay the guest .