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Definition of Bunyan

1. Noun. English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688).

2. Noun. A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada. "The lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"

Definition of Bunyan

1. Proper noun. An English surname; a nickname for someone with a hump or lump. ¹

2. Proper noun. John Bunyan, English preacher and writer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunyan

Bunostomum Bunostomum phlebotomum Bunostomum trigonocephalum Bunsen Bunsen's solubility coefficient Bunsen-Roscoe law Bunsen burner Bunsen burners Bunsen cell Bunsen cells

Bunsen pile Bunsen piles Bunuel Bunyamwera fever Bunyamwera virus Bunyan (current term) Bunyaviridae Buphthalmum Buphthalmum salicifolium Bura

Burali-Forti paradox Buran Burbage Burbank Burberry Burchard-Liebermann reaction Burchell's zebra Burckhardtian Burdach's column Burdach's fasciculus

Literary usage of Bunyan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"FORGERIES ON JOHN Bunyan. The Editor of the first complete edition of all Bunyan's works ... Bunyan published his Second Part in 1684. Query, who was TS? 8. ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"It was probably in 1655 that Bunyan removed to Bedford. ... In 1655 Bunyan, who had been chosen one of the deacons, began to exercise his gift of ..."

3. English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the by William Joseph Long (1909)
"PROSE WRITERS OF THE PURITAN PERIOD JOHN Bunyan (1628-1688) As there is but one ... Life of Bunyan. Bunyan is an extraordinary figure; we must study him, ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"The humble parentage of Bunyan is well known ; the stories that are told of ... Bunyan had formerly taken great delight in bell ringing ; but now that his ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1835)
"HISTORICAL CHARACTERS. By SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. CHARACTER OF Bunyan. Tun history and genius of Bunyan were as much more extraordinary than those of Baxter, ..."

6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1880)
"Bunyan.*—This biography, from Morley's series of "English Men of Letters," needs no heralding to commend it to all our readers. Such a subject as Bunyan in ..."

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