dictionary definitions for "gloaming"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gloaming \Gloam"ing\, n. [See Gloom.]
     1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of
        Eng., and in poetry.] --Hogg.
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     2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] --J. Still.
        [1913 Webster]


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