| NOUN | person | Gibbon, Edward Gibbon | English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) |
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| animal | gibbon, Hylobates lar | smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail |
| Sounds | gih'bahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794). | |
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| Synonym | Edward Gibbon | |
| Instance of | historian, historiographer | A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it |
| Spanish | Edward Gibbon, Gibbon | |
| Catalan | Edward Gibbon | |
| Meaning | smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies. | |
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| Synonym | Hylobates lar | |
| Member of | Hylobates, genus Hylobates | gibbons |
| Broader | lesser ape | gibbons and siamangs |
| Spanish | gibón, hylobates | |
| Catalan | gibó | |
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