Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun john_henry

1 sense of john henry

Sense 1
John Henry -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> fictional character, fictitious character, character -- (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel")