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gibbons

gibbons is the plural of gibbon.

Meaning of gibbon

Noun

gibbon (plural gibbons)

  1. A small, arboreal ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through tropical rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
    • '[…] 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.1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena

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Proper noun capitalized: Gibbons

Gibbons

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Sturgeon County, central Alberta, Canada.

Words formed from gibbons

Phrases with gibbons

Questions about gibbons

What does gibbons mean?
Gibbons means a surname.
What is gibbons the plural of?
Gibbons is the plural of gibbon.
What part of speech is gibbons?
Gibbons is a proper noun.

Words near gibbons in the dictionary

  1. gibbon
  2. Gibbonesque
  3. Gibboney
  4. Gibboneys
  5. Gibbonian
  6. gibbons
  7. Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
  8. gibbose
  9. gibbosely
  10. gibbosities
  11. gibbosity

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