gloam

Other forms of gloam

plural

gloams·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gloam

What does gloam mean?

gloam means "the time of day immediately following sunset".

How many syllables are in gloam?

gloam has 1 syllable: gloam. In IPA it is /ˈɡloʊm/.

What is another word for gloam?

Close synonyms include twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gloam a common word?

gloam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.