gloamn.
/ɡləʊm/ rare.
Twilight, gloaming.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight
evengloamOE
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
twilightc1440
twinlightc1532
grisping1580
grey1592
owl-light1599
gropsing1606
twatter-light1606
twitterlight1608
dusk1622
grasp1650
torchlighta1656
crepuscle1665
mock-shade1669
dimps1693
duskish1696
dimmit1746
darklins1767
twilight glow1819
gloama1821
owlet light1821
sandhya1876
dusk-light1937
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
nighteOE
evengloamOE
eveningOE
gloamingc1000
darknessa1382
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
darkc1400
twilight1412
sky1515
twinlightc1532
day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
a1821 J. Keats La Belle Dame x I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide.
1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets 85 And blithe is Honfleur's echoing gloam When mothers call the children home.
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gloamv.
/ɡləʊm/, U.S. /ɡloʊm/, Scottish English /ɡlom/ Chiefly Scottish.
intransitive. To darken, become dusk. Also to be gloamed: to have grown dusk.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > at nightfall
nighta1393
nighten1561
gloom1595
advesperate1623
gloam1819
dusken1870
dusk1876
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > become evening [verb (intransitive)] > fall (of night) or grow dark
fallOE
nightc1440
to fall ona1450
nighten1561
gloom1595
gloam1819
dusken1870
dusk1876
to shut down1880
1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick I. xi. 166 By this time, it was turn't gayan gloam't.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) It gloams, twilight comes on, Aberd.
1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 176 When purple evening gloameth.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xl. 278 An' ye cudna expeck fowk hame fae a marriage afore 't war weel gloam't.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (at cited word) I must be going homewards before it gloams.
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