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• Paul Bunyan
  Paul Bunyan

  noun

  a legendary giant lumberjack, an American folk hero.
• Bunyan, Paul
  Bunyan, Paul

  A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada. He was accompanied by a blue ox named Babe. The stories about him resemble traditional tall tales. In one such story, the ten thousand lakes of Minnesota originated when Paul and Babe's footprints filled with water.

Paul Bunyan

American  

noun

1. a legendary giant lumberjack, an American folk hero.

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Bunyan, Paul Cultural  

1. A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada. He was accompanied by a blue ox named Babe. The stories about him resemble traditional tall tales. In one such story, the ten thousand lakes of Minnesota originated when Paul and Babe's footprints filled with water.

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Example Sentences

“We were very aggressive in trying to assist our members with access to the program,” said Gary Johnson, CEO of Paul Bunyan Communications, a Minnesota-based internet provider.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024

It has long tables, with red-and-white-checkered tablecloths, and its own lumberjack museum, with giant saws — and soup ladles befitting Paul Bunyan himself — hanging from the walls.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2022

His anti-arborism positions him in a great American tradition, as a mighty Paul Bunyan to Warnock’s Johnny Appleseed, a wily Once-ler to Warnock’s Lorax.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022

The novel reimagines the story of Paul Bunyan against the backdrop of race and immigration in the period following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

It was like watching Paul Bunyan make out with one of those It's a Small World dolls.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell