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Gibbon

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Noun

1. edward gibbon, gibbon

English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

2. gibbon, hylobates lar

smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gibbon

see synonyms of gibbon
noun
any small agile arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, inhabiting forests in S Asia
noun
1. 
Edward. 1737–94, English historian; author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88), controversial in its historical criticism of Christianity
2. 
Lewis Grassic (ˈɡræsɪk), real name James Leslie Mitchell. 1901–35, Scottish writer: best known for his trilogy of novels A Scots Quair (1932–34)

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Gibbon

see synonyms of gibbon
Edward1737-94; Eng. historian
noun
any of a family (Hylobatidae) of small, slender, long-armed, tree-dwelling, anthropoid apes of India, S China, and the East Indies

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gibbon

see synonyms of gibbon
British historian who wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788).
n.
Any of various small arboreal apes of the family Hylobatidae of Southeast Asia, having a slender body, long arms, and no tail.

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