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GLOAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gloam mean?
• GLOAM (noun)
The noun GLOAM has 1 sense:
1. the time of day immediately following sunset
Familiarity information: GLOAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of day immediately following sunset
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight
Context example:
they finished before the fall of night
Hypernyms ("gloam" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gloam"):
night (a shortening of nightfall)
Holonyms ("gloam" is a part of...):
eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))
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