Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Archaic Twilight; gloaming.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The gloaming.
- To grow dark: as, it begins to gloam.
- 2. To be sullen; gloom.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
- v. obsolete To be sullen or morose.
- n. rare The twilight; gloaming.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time of day immediately following sunset
Etymologies
- Back-formation from gloaming. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“gloam" is the word from the crossword puzzle that we couldn't figure out! so we made up the word g'voam instead.”
“Sitting up on one of the lion sculptures, alone in the dusky gloam, Rovender Kitt stared out at the skies as the top of the sun sank below the inky landscape.”
“The bullet from nowhere, the theody in the gloam, the silent stones: a true mystery and its answer are one.”
“In the gloam, her teeth shone as green as grass, and her ancient monkey head was surmounted by a souffle of a cap.”
“In the gloam, I made a search for such but found none.”
“And now President Ford, eager for the historic, enters the mist-heavy gloam of "foreign policy.”
“Ungathered toys; our hearth-light cut the gloam; 10”
“To everything around the place, an 'in the twilight gloam”
“But when a thunder storm comes up, Ma sits an 'shivers in the gloam”
“Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gloam’.
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Times of Day
A cycle we should know by name
dawn, sunrise, daw, sparrow-fart, moonrise, daybreak, crepuscular, false dawn, greking, night, dusk, evenfall and 17 more...
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Words I love
Words that are fun to say or pleasing to my ear
haberdashery, tobacconist, lugubrious, sausage, oozing, gloam
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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sillygoose's Words
nefarious, waffle, dilettante, love, obstreperous, suggestible, fodder, plucky, trajectory, eclectic, juggernaut, demure and 115 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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word list!!!!
lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
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Summer 12
vitrine, viaduct, traceries, taxonomic, ternary, vicegerent, stratagem, vermeil, shippon, rostral, scherzando, retinue and 197 more...
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astrange's Words
moé, æsthetic, catbus, mecha, stardust, fen, lagom, vermouth, quaff, gloam, muck, cthulhu and 5 more...
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lovely & attractive
shellac, flimflammed, verisimilitude, necromancer, wax, behemoth, smarmy, spleen, onomatopoeia, niminy-piminy, nonplus, degringolade and 63 more...
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Attractive sounding words
ingot, sylph, synechdoche, apotheosis, soliloquy, irascible, diarrhea, dubious, mellifluous, sobriquet, aleatory, panoply and 31 more...
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mrcow's Words
vertiginous, apocryphal, eponymous, immolate, judicious, intractable, vaunted, cogent, conceit, defenestrate, turgid, disabuse and 37 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gloam.
mialuthien Pre-dawn? Antelucan? (ante + lux) Jul 17, 2008
shevek Is there an analogous word for the time right before dawn? Jul 17, 2008
bookhling So this is what to call the time. Now I know. Jul 17, 2008