gloaming

n.
Twilight; dusk.

[Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, alteration (probably influenced by æfnung, evening) of glōm, dusk.]

(GLO-ming)

noun
Twilight; dusk.

Etymology
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glomung, from glom (dusk). Ultimately from Indo-European root ghel- (to shine) that is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy and cholera

Usage
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." — John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914).

"The book is a marked departure from previous (Robert) Harris works set in the chill gloaming of mid-20th-century European history, an era that has fascinated him since he was a child ..." — Alan Cowell; A Writer's Allegories For Today; International Herald Tribune (Paris, France); Nov 18, 2003.

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noun

The period between afternoon and nighttime: dusk, eve, evening, eventide, nightfall, twilight. Archaic even², vesper. See start/end.

IN BRIEF: Twilight or dusk.

Lights began blinking on in the gloaming as the day ended.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tusmørke, skumring, mørkning

Nederlands (Dutch)
(avond)schemering

Français (French)
n. - crépuscule

Deutsch (German)
n. - Abenddämmerung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δειλινό, σούρουπο, μούχρωμα

Italiano (Italian)
crepuscolo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - crepúsculo (m)

Русский (Russian)
сумерки

Español (Spanish)
n. - anochecer, crepúsculo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skymning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
黄昏, 薄暮

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 黃昏, 薄暮

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 황혼

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 夕暮れ, 黄昏

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الغسق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דמדומי-ערב‬

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