Associations to the word «Gibbons»

Wiktionary

GIBBON, noun. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
GIBBON, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

GIBBON, noun. English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794).
GIBBON, noun. Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras