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US
/ˈɡɪbən/
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[ UK /ɡˈɪbən/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɪbən/ ]
NOUN
- English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
How To Use Gibbon In A Sentence
- JIM GIBBONS, NEVADA: Nevada is the state that needs water, but we don't need it all at once. CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2008
- The architectural ornament is of that easy and delectable kind which mimics nature: the acanthus leaves of Corinthian capitals, garlands and trophies in the manner of Wren and Grinling Gibbons.
- In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examines the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
- The four orang-utans and two gibbons were returned to Indonesia after being illegally poached and smuggled to Japan eight months ago.
- In the rain forests of Southeast Asia live the most agile of all mammals: the slender, long-limbed gibbons.
- This is why MGM was the echt Hollywood studio of the first half of the century, its scripts adapted from nineteenth-century novels by Tolstoy and Dickens, its gowns by Adrian, and its sets by Cedric Gibbons.
- The Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is also critically endangered. Western Java rain forests
- The range of Orlando Gibbons can be savoured first in another expressive and touching pavan.
- Along the way Gray offers idiosyncratic commentaries on Chaucer, Pepys, Gibbon, Milton and Burns.
- Pat Gibbons, specialist acer grower, from Hippopottering Nursery at East Lound, Haxey, Doncaster, was hoping to catch the public's eye in the Great Pavilion with a new pink variety, Acer Palmatium Taylor.