English noun: Gibbon | |||
| 1. | Gibbon (person) English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) | ||
| Synonyms | Edward Gibbon | ||
| Instance hypernym | historian, historiographer | ||
| 2. | gibbon (animal) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies | ||
| Synonyms | Hylobates lar | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | lesser ape | ||
| Member meronym | genus Hylobates, Hylobates | ||