noun
English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
• Syn: ↑Gibbon
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑historian, ↑historiographer
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(1737–94) an English ↑historian and ↑Member of Parliament who spent much of his life writing his main work, ↑Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He is regarded as one of the major ↑thinkers and writers of the ↑Age of Enlightenment in Britain.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.