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Definition of Gloam
1. Noun. The time of day immediately following sunset. "They finished before the fall of night"
Group relationships: Eve, Even, Evening, Eventide
Specialized synonyms: Night
Generic synonyms: Hour, Time Of Day
Derivative terms: Crepuscular, Crepuscular, Dusky
Definition of Gloam
1. v. i. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
2. n. The twilight; gloaming.
Definition of Gloam
1. Noun. (obsolete) gloaming, twilight ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gloam
1. twilight [n -S] - See also: twilight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloam
Literary usage of Gloam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews (1910)
"I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gaped wide— And I awoke,
and found me here, On the cold hill's side. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"Well, now, as touching Scholar gloam, he died nigh a score of years ago; ...
When I knew Scholar gloam, he was a middling-sized, slender-built young ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To grow dark: as, it begins to gloam.— 2f. To be sullen ; gloom. gloaming (glo'ming),
и. and a. [A dial. var. of (/looming, which, though little used in ..."
4. Notes to Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs & Lyrics. Books I-IV. by John Henry Fowler (1904)
"41. gloam. There is a substantive'gloaming,'evening twilight, and also a verb 'to
gloam,' to ... The form 'gloam' as substantive is Keats' own invention. ..."
5. Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews (1910)
"I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gaped wide— And I awoke,
and found me here, On the cold hill's side. ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"Well, now, as touching Scholar gloam, he died nigh a score of years ago; ...
When I knew Scholar gloam, he was a middling-sized, slender-built young ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To grow dark: as, it begins to gloam.— 2f. To be sullen ; gloom. gloaming (glo'ming),
и. and a. [A dial. var. of (/looming, which, though little used in ..."
8. Notes to Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs & Lyrics. Books I-IV. by John Henry Fowler (1904)
"41. gloam. There is a substantive'gloaming,'evening twilight, and also a verb 'to
gloam,' to ... The form 'gloam' as substantive is Keats' own invention. ..."
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