The gloaming is the dim light at the end of the day. In the gloaming, walk home in the gloaming, the summer gloaming.
It is chiefly Scottish and poetic, and it names the whole slow lingering half-light rather than a moment. It is related to glow rather than to gloom, though the two have influenced each other in the spelling.
1noungloamingThe dim light at the end of the day.
“We walked home across the fields in the gloaming, as the first stars appeared.”
gloaming is a light.
Old English glomung comes from glom, twilight, and is related to glow.
Old English
glōmung
Middle English
gloming
English, today
gloaming
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). Related to glow. The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
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