gloam Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Gloam intransitive verb
Etymology
See Gloom, Glum.
Definitions
  1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
  2. To be sullen or morose. Obs.
Gloam noun
Definitions
  1. The twilight; gloaming. R. Keats.

Webster 1913