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Definition of Gibbon
1. Noun. English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794).
2. Noun. Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies.
Generic synonyms: Lesser Ape
Group relationships: Genus Hylobates, Hylobates
Definition of Gibbon
1. n. Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
Definition of Gibbon
1. Noun. A small ape of the family ''Hylobatidae'' with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gibbon
1. an arboreal ape [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gibbon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbon
Literary usage of Gibbon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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.
... Shut out from the ordinary channels of learning, gibbon read with an ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"x To Lausanne, gibbon became so attached that, after he had returned thither in the
... In matters spiritual, gibbon inclined rather to frivolity than to ..."
3. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"would induce gibbon ' to conceal any explanations which might tend to exalt the
beauties ... He afterwards thanked gibbon for a courteous reference in the ..."
4. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1814)
"6'9B—7OO, a very curious and civil account of the gibbon Family, ... Edward gibbon,
the South Sea Director, died in the year 1736; his son, my father, ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"EDWARD gibbon (1737-1794) BY WEH LECKY IHE history of gibbon has been described
by John Stuart Mill as the only eighteenth-century history that has ..."
6. Literary studies, ed. by R.H. Hutton by Walter Bagehot (1884)
"The preference, however, of Edward gibbon the grandfather was for the article 'shares;'
... By Edward gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. ..."
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