Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

  2. (intransitive)To be sullen or morose.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He paced up and down the ship's deck in the gloaming.

    deIn der Abenddämmerung ging ich auf dem Deck des Schiffes hin und her.

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Origin

Back-formation from gloaming.

Back-formation from gloaming.

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Forms

gloams, gloaming, gloamed, gloamed
Base formgloam · to gloam
3rd person singulargloams
Present participlegloaming
Past simplegloamed
Past participlegloamed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygloam
he, she, itgloams

Past simpleLesson

all personsgloamed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gloamed
he, she, ithas gloamed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gloam

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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