Bunyan
[bʌnjәn]
Definition
(noun.) a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; 'Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe'; 'the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water'.
(noun.) English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688).
Editor: Wallace--From WordNet
Examples
- When immortal Bunyan makes his picture of the persecuting passions bringing in their verdict of guilty, who pities Faithful? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My first acquisition was _Bunyan's_ works in separate little volumes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Tom received the compliment with becoming modesty, and began to look as affable as was consistent, as John Bunyan says, with his doggish nature. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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