gloaming Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the time of day immediately following sunset
    crepuscle; dusk; fall; gloam; evenfall; nightfall; twilight; crepuscule.
    • he loved the twilight
    • they finished before the fall of night

WordNet

Gloam"ing noun
Etymology
See Gloom.
Definitions
  1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry. Hogg.
  2. Sullenness; melancholy. Obs. J. Still.

Webster 1913