gloaming

noun

ˈglō-miŋ How to pronounce gloaming (audio)
Definition of gloamingnext
1
as in dusk
a time or place of little or no light lovers would often retreat to the gloaming of the park's many secluded recesses to steal a kiss

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2
as in sunset
the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness with the gloaming came the familiar call of the whip-poor-will

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Recent Examples of gloaming There is an excellent chance that one of the world’s two best golfers will be sliding his arms into a green jacket in the sweet gloaming of Sunday evening just outside the Augusta National clubhouse. — Jason Sobel, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 Just across the street was a second landfill, belonging to a Texas company called Weeks Environmental, whose own black mountain—nearly ten million additional barrels of waste—rose into the Texas gloaming. — Justin Nobel, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Some of these convey important information; others emerged, devoid of any useful meaning, from the marketing gloaming. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gloaming
  1. dusk
  2. sunset
  3. night
  4. dark
  5. evening
  6. blackness
  7. twilight
  8. darkness
Noun
  • The lights, which will be visible at dusk, will match the show's new logo.
    — Sean Keane, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • She is surrounded by figures that resemble cotton plants, their bulbs aglow, flickering like dragonflies hovering in the fading light of dusk.
    — Omnia Saed, ARTnews.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of dusk
Noun
  • Our apartment faced west, with a sweeping view of the Hudson River, and the sunsets were often riots of color.
    — Rob Mank, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There’s nothing quite like a Hawaiian sunset paired with a breezy dinner view.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of sunset
Noun
  • Spoelstra unsuccessfully challenged that second Adebayo foul, left without a challenge the balance of the night.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The Cornhuskers opened up this tournament on Monday night with a game against Arizona State and won 86-78.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of night
Noun
  • Avoid traveling after dark in Kenya due to crime and poor traffic safety.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Cara Delevingne Cara Delevingne also wore a black aviator jacket, instead pairing it with a white scoop-neck top, wide-leg dark wash jeans and black loafers.
    — Hannah Malach, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025
Definition of dark
Noun
  • On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution’s museums.
    — The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Leaving a bar in Mayfair, Eddie Harrigan (Anson Boon) tries to persuade a reluctant Tommy Stevenson (Felix Edwards) to keep the evening going.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of evening
Noun
  • There is beauty in blackness, this exhibition argues, value in places that lack light.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2025
  • On a cold January day, the sun sets early and rises late, yielding to a blackness that envelopes the island, a blackness so deep that the light of stars manifests suddenly at dusk and the glow of the moon is bright enough to navigate by.
    — Nicholas J. R. White Kat Hill, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Definition of blackness
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  • Several key figures - see Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Kyle Walker - are now into the twilights of their respective careers and so Guardiola’s team have been unable to play its usual style of high-energy, high-intensity soccer.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Getting to work with Jacobson again in the twilight of his career has been a thrill, Sirott said.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of twilight
Noun
  • Scientists also think that the atmosphere is populated with light-absorbing metallic gases such as sodium and potassium that help shroud the planet in darkness.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Last year, while sunny skies prevailed for the Xfinity Series race on Saturday, the Cup Series race was once again shortened when rain delays forced officials to call the race after 58 laps as darkness fell on the unlit street course.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of darkness

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“Gloaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gloaming. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

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