Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gibbon

2 senses of gibbon

Sense 1
Gibbon, Edward Gibbon -- (English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794))
       INSTANCE OF=> historian, historiographer -- (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Sense 2
gibbon, Hylobates lar -- (smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies)
       => lesser ape -- (gibbons and siamangs)