GLOAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gloaming mean? 

• GLOAMING (noun)
  The noun GLOAMING has 1 sense:

1. the time of day immediately following sunset

  Familiarity information: GLOAMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOAMING (noun)

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 ("gloaming" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gloaming"):

night (a shortening of nightfall)

Holonyms ("gloaming" is a part of...):

eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))

 Context examples 

All this Alleyne listened to, until the dark keep of Twynham towered above them in the gloaming, and they saw the red sun lying athwart the rippling Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She comes from the other world—from the abode of people who are dead; and tells me so when she meets me alone here in the gloaming!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest fraction of the day at Lowood: the bit of bread, the draught of coffee swallowed at five o'clock had revived vitality, if it had not satisfied hunger: the long restraint of the day was slackened; the schoolroom felt warmer than in the morning—its fires being allowed to burn a little more brightly, to supply, in some measure, the place of candles, not yet introduced: the ruddy gloaming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While such honey-dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on this more open quarter, my step is stayed—not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a warning fragrance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)