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/ˈɡɪbən/ · noun
A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through 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.
Use gibbon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gibbon means A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch..
Common synonyms include hylobatid, lesser ape, hylobates lar.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
'[…] 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.
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