gloaming

n. 夕幕, 黄昏, 薄明

发音

UK /ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/
US /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/

词形变化

gloamings 复数 gloamings

别名

gloam

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.

    黄昏

  2. 2.

    Sullenness; melancholy.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of gloam

词汇关系

名词

同义词 8

fall twilight nightfall dusk crepuscle crepuscule evenfall gloam

上位词 2

hour time of day

下位词 1

night

整体词 4

even evening eve eventide

词源

From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow. The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."

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