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sundown
English
Etymology
sun +? down
Pronunciation
Noun
sundown (countable and uncountable, plural sundowns)
- (US) Sunset.
- (countable) A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.
Synonyms
- dusk, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk
Translations
Verb
sundown (third-person singular simple present sundowns, present participle sundowning, simple past and past participle sundowned)
- (intransitive) to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at nightfall.
- 2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101
- "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."
- 2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101
Derived terms
- sundowner
- sundowning
- sundown town
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gloaming
English
Etymology
From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English gl?mung, from Old English gl?m (“twilight”); synchronically gloom +? -ing. Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English gl?mung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ? was shortened in the compound ?fen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject gl?mung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English gl?ming, modern English gloaming."
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l??.m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??lo?.m??/
- Rhymes: -??m??
Noun
gloaming (plural gloamings)
- (poetry, Scotland, Northern England) Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
- Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
- Antonyms: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
- (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.
- Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe
Translations
Verb
gloaming
- present participle of gloam
References
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