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    GLOAMING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The time of day immediately following sunsetplay

    Example:

    they finished before the fall of night

    Synonyms:

    crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("gloaming" is a kind of...):

    hour; time of day (clock time)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gloaming"):

    night (a shortening of nightfall)

    Holonyms ("gloaming" is a part of...):

    eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))

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