gibbon means A surname.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, gibbon ranks #1,017 of 20,752 for Qualifying.
gibbon is pronounced /ˈɡɪbən/.
Etymology
From Old French Giboin, from Frankish *Gebawin (literally “Gift-friend”).
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.”