Edward Gibbon wrote a book about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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Gibbon
//ˈɡɪbən//
Synonyms for "gibbon" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(2 words)
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6 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 37 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- gibbon noun (small ape)
- langarmaap noun (small ape)
Arabic
3 entries- جِبَّوْن noun (small ape)
- جِبُون noun (small ape)
- غِيبُون noun (small ape)
Assamese
1 entries- গিবন noun (small ape)
Basque
1 entries- giboi noun (small ape)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гибон noun (small ape)
Burmese
1 entries- မျောက်လွှဲကျော် noun (small ape)
Catalan
1 entries- gibó noun (small ape)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 長臂猿 /长臂猿 noun (small ape)
Czech
1 entries- gibon noun (small ape)
Dutch
1 entries- gibbon noun (small ape)
Finnish
1 entries- gibboni noun (small ape)
French
1 entries- gibbon noun (small ape)
Galician
1 entries- xibón noun (small ape)
Georgian
1 entries- გიბონი noun (small ape)
German
1 entries- Gibbon noun (small ape)
Greek
1 entries- γίββων noun (small ape)
Hindi
1 entries- लंगूर noun (small ape)
Hungarian
1 entries- gibbon noun (small ape)
Ido
1 entries- gibono noun (small ape)
Irish
1 entries- giobún noun (small ape)
Italian
1 entries- gibbone noun (small ape)
Japanese
2 entries- テナガザル noun (small ape)
- 手長猿 noun (small ape)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦲꦸꦮꦲꦸꦮ noun (small ape)
Kazakh
2 entries- гиббон noun (small ape)
- ұзын қол мешін noun (small ape)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- gibbon noun (small ape)
Malay
3 entries- ungka noun (small ape)
- uwa-uwa noun (small ape)
- wakwak (Kalimantan) noun (small ape)
Navajo
1 entries- mágí bigaanézí noun (small ape)
Polish
1 entries- gibon noun (small ape)
Portuguese
1 entries- gibão noun (small ape)
Romanian
1 entries- gibon noun (small ape)
Russian
1 entries- гиббо́н noun (small ape)
Slovak
1 entries- gibon noun (small ape)
Spanish
1 entries- gibón noun (small ape)
Thai
1 entries- ชะนี noun (small ape)
Tày
2 entries- ca đác noun (small ape)
- căng noun (small ape)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vượn noun (small ape)
Welsh
1 entries- gibon noun (small ape)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
In Northern India lives another gibbon, the hoolock.
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Four leopard cubs, a bear cub, a monkey, and a red-cheeked gibbon were found sedated and packed into small cages.
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'[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.
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