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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gib•bon /ˈgɪbən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Mammalsa small, slender tree-dwelling ape of S Asia.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gib•bon (gib′ən),USA pronunciation n. - Mammalsany small, slender, long-armed arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, of the East Indies and southern Asia: all gibbon species are reduced in number and some are very rare.
- French, name of uncertain origin, originally used by Buffon
- 1760–70
- Ancient History, Biographical Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: gibbon /ˈɡɪbən/ n - any small agile arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, inhabiting forests in S Asia
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, probably from an Indian dialect word Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Gibbon /ˈɡɪbən/ n - 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
- Lewis Grassic (ˈɡræsɪk), real name James Leslie Mitchell. 1901–35, Scottish writer: best known for his trilogy of novels Scots Quair (1932–34)
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