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say it: BUH-nyuhn
bunyan is a noun meaning "English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bunyan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.