Definition of Edward gibbon

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

Exact synonyms: Gibbon
Generic synonyms: Historian, Historiographer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Edward Gibbon

Edward
Edward Albee
Edward Antony Richard Louis
Edward Appleton
Edward Benjamin Britten
Edward Bouverie Pusey
Edward Calvin Kendall
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Estlin Cummings
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Fitzgerald
Edward Franklin Albeen
Edward G. Robinson
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Gibbon
Edward Goldenberg Robinson
Edward Henry Harriman
Edward I
Edward II
Edward III
Edward IV
Edward James Hughes
Edward James Muggeridge
Edward Jean Steichen
Edward Jenner
Edward Kendall
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Edward Lawrie Tatum
Edward Lear

Literary usage of Edward gibbon

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1. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"edward gibbon (1737-1794) was the eldest son of a country gentleman of good family. He was born at Putney on the 271)1 of April 1737 ; of the seven children ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"Law came into the family as tutor of edward gibbon, said to be the ' Flatus ' of the ' Serious Call.' Edward was sent to Westminster and to Emmanuel College ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"Î. The Correspondence of edward gibbon. Edited by RE Prothero. Two Volumes. London,. 3. The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd, in Letters from to. ..."

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