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JOHN HENRY

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• JOHN HENRY (noun)
The noun JOHN HENRY has 1 sense:

1. hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill

Familiarity information: JOHN HENRY used as a noun is very rare.

• JOHN HENRY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

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