amazon

1 a large strong and aggressive woman [syn: virago]

2 (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)

3 a major South American river; flows into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles) [syn: Amazon River]

4 mainly green tropical American parrots

see Amazon

English

Noun

1. A tall, strong, athletic woman.

   Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, many women athletes are called amazons.

Adjective

1. (of a woman) very tall, strong and athletic.

   Women's Tennis champions Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams are noted for their amazon physiques.

2. Having physical or behavioral characteristics associated with Amazons or their culture.

Quotations

(for usage examples see citations)

Related terms

• Amazonian
• amazonian

Amazon or Amazons may refer to:

• Amazons, members of a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology
• more generally, any "woman warrior"
  • History of women in the military
  • Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey
  • Amazon feminism, dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact

• Amazon River, the largest river in the world by volume
  • Amazon Rainforest, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America
  • Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
  • Amazon parrots, a large genuses of parrot from the American, popular in aviatation

companies:

• Amazon.com, an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington, and its separate websites in seven other countries
• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, an "independent feminist bookstore" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

literature:

• Amazons (comics), legendary warrior women from the DC Comics universe associated with the superheroine Wonder Woman
• Swallows and Amazons (series), a series by Arthur Ransome about two girl sailors and would-be pirates
• Amazon (comics), also known as Man-Killer, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• The Amazon (book), a book by Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead

music:

• Amazon (band), a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in 2002
• Amazon (Ruslana song), song by the winner of the 2004 Eurovision , Ruslana

television and film:

• Amazons (1984 film), a TV-Movie starring Tamara Dobson
• Amazons (1986 film), a 1986 Argentine adventure science fiction fantasy epic
• Amazon (TV series), a 1999 TV series adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1987 film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland
• Amazon Women in the Mood, an episode from the 3rd season of Futurama.
• Kamen Rider Amazon, a japanese television show.

vehicles:

• HMS Amazon, the name of four ships of the British Royal Navy
• Amazon, an historic ship, built in 1885 as a screw schooner yacht
• Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956-1970
• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Amazon (automobile), an interwar British car

other:

• Amazon (Fairy chess piece), a fairy chess piece which is used in some variants of chess
• Game of the Amazons, a board game
• Military - Libya's Col. Kadaffi's Personal Bodyguards called "The Amazonian Guard". See Women in military history, Re.: Countries, Re.: Libya. Libya is the only Islamic Nation that has women in the military.
• 1984 Adventure game created by Michael Crichton.

See also

• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Amazon Fund

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