Gibbon is valid Scrabble Word

Is gibbon a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for GIBBON in dictionary:

NOUN:

any of various small long-armed tailless arboreal apes of SE Asia
a small, slender tree-dwelling ape with long powerful arms and loud hooting calls, native to the forests of SE Asia.
agile tree-dwelling ape of S Asia
Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an arboreal ape

Words related to GIBBON

gibbons12 hylobate16

Words that contain GIBBON

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How to use GIBBON in a sentence

At Lausanne the poet made a pilgrimage to the haunts of Gibbon, broke a sprig from his acacia-tree, and carried off some rose leaves from his garden.
It is the life and the individuality of Gibbon which preserve his fame and popularity rather than his marvellous learning.
Perhaps that is one reason why Gibbon begins his history with later emperors.
Gibbon, in his learned chapter, prefers to consider the specific obligations of men to each other under promises, benefits, and injuries.
Walter Scott, Gibbon, Macaulay, Froude, those made money no doubt.
That terrible decline and fall which Gibbon has pictured was in full progress.
Under these circumstances the scepticism of Gibbon with respect to them is perhaps more worthy of commendation than the ready faith of a recent French writer.
We have Grote, Gibbon, Finlay, Macaulay, Motley, Frescott.
Indeed, as Gibbon owned, it was one of the causes to which the gradual triumph of Christianity was due.
Ghulam Hyder Gibbon, Major Gladstone, The Right Hon.

Yet it is to such things as auxiliaries that Gibbon refers me for the success of Christianity.
Before we start for Rome we read our Tacitus and our Horace, our Gibbon and our Merivale.
It is to be regretted, that Gibbon does not afford us any new light on the cause in which originated the institution itself.
The best hotels, the Gibbon, Richemont, Falcon, Grand Pont, and several more, stood within easy reach, and I soon exhausted this branch of the inquiry.
But there is need to note that Taine held Macaulay to be in no wise inferior to Gibbon.
After delivering an eloquent speech, which Gibbon says was heard with delight by all sides of the house, and even by those whose existence he proscribed, he detailed his scheme.
Gibbon made loud professions of independence and of an earnest desire for the enlargement of popular liberty.
But somehow he has never thought of sending me back my shabby old Gibbon.
All people are no more born great scholars like Gibbon and Bentley, than they are all born great musicians like Handel and Beethoven.
Here, however, the high authority of Gibbon is against us.
I fired with the shotgun at a mass of moving leaves and killed a second gibbon which had been hiding in the thick foliage.
By a lucky chance we had chosen, from all the trees in the forest, to sit under the very one in which the gibbon had been hiding and she had tried to steal away unnoticed.
The troops of Meade and Gibbon were streaming in confusion to the rear.
The gibbon I saw walked without either putting his arms behind his head or holding them out backwards.
Gibbon the historian lies in the Sheffield mausoleum.
Gibbon and Hodgkin refuse the former, Gregorovius the latter statement.
Although this was the longest period, Gibbon devoted much less space to it than to the preceding parts of his history.
For the rest, the Association thought the thoughts, spoke the words, and made the moves of Gibbon Wakefield.
Gibbon Wakefield, who was ostensibly nothing but a private member of the Lower House, pulled the strings behind the scenes.
Gibbon finished his work at Lausanne on the 27th of June, 1787.
With us HUME, ROBERTSON, and GIBBON rose almost simultaneously by mutual inspiration.

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