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bunyan
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Noun bunyan has 2 senses
- bunyan(n = noun.person) john bunyan - English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688); Array is a kind of preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer, author, writer
- bunyan(n = noun.person) paul bunyan - 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" is a kind of character, fictional character, fictitious character, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman
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