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Definitions: Bunyan |
BunyanNoun1. English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688). 2. A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; had a blue ox named Babe; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bunyan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
"Bunyan" is a common misspelling or typo for: banyan, bunion. |
Synonyms: BunyanSynonyms: John Bunyan (n), Paul Bunyan (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bunyan |
| English words defined with "Bunyan": fabled ♦ John Bunyan ♦ legendary ♦ Paul Bunyan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Bunyan": City of Destruction ♦ Great Men ♦ Immortal Tinker ♦ Piers Plowman. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I know all about your standards and if you don't mind my sayin' so there's not a man alive who could hope to measure up to that blend of Paul Bunyan, Saint Pat, and Noah Webster you've concocted for yourself out of your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbornness, and your li'berry full of books! (The Music Man; writing credit: Meredith Willson; Franklin Lacey) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Ballad of Paul Bunyan (1973) Paul Bunyan (1958) Rabbit Ears: Paul Bunyan (1990) The Legend of Paul Bunyan (1983) | |
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 | Well, sir, compare Bunyan with some of our other modern writers--take Kipling for instance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Paul Bunyan just went through Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Paul Bunyan monument, Bemidji, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Paul Bunyan at used car lot, Bemidji, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Bunyan | The more he cast away the more he had. |
| So I awoke, and behold it was a dream. | |
| Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. | |
| One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. | |
| A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. | |
| A man there was and they called him mad; the more he gave the more he had. | |
| There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. | |
| In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. | |
| He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Bunyan" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Bunyan" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.45% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.55% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bunyan" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bunyan | Last name | 170 | 48,074 |
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Expressions using "Bunyan": John Bunyan ♦ paul bunyan. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Bunyan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Bunyan-Stannard's hypokloritomslag (Bunyan-Stannard poultice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kompres van Bunyan-Stannard (Bunyan-Stannard poultice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | compresse pour brûlure de Bunyan (Bunyan-Stannard poultice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Bunyan-Stannard Umschlag (Bunyan-Stannard poultice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unyanbay буньян. (various references) cataplasma de Bunyan-Stannard (Bunyan-Stannard poultice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-n-n-u-y" | |
-1 letter: bunny, bunya, unban. | |
-2 letters: bunn, yuan. | |
-3 letters: aby, any, ban, bay, bun, buy, nab, nan, nay, nub, nun. | |
-4 letters: ab, an, ay, ba, by, na, nu, un, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-n-n-u-y" | |
+2 letters: gunnybag. | |
+3 letters: gunnybags. | |
+4 letters: abundantly, biannually, subtenancy, undeniably. | |
+5 letters: connubially, innumerably, unendurably, unthinkably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 6E 79 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- -. -.--. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01101110 01111001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u n y a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 006E 0079 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368780916780 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, датский, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, голландский, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, французский, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, немецкий, alemán |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | russer, Russe, russisch, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, английский, inglés |
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