7.22.2010

a.word.a.day gloaming

gloaming 

 


PRONUNCIATION:
(GLO-ming)

MEANING:
noun: Twilight; dusk.

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



 

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