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Amazon

Amazon \Am"a*zon\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]

  1. One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

  2. A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis

    Amazon ant (Zo["o]l.), a species of ant ( Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larv[ae] and nymphs of other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Amazon

late 14c., from Greek Amazon (mostly in plural Amazones) "one of a race of female warriors in Scythia," probably from an unknown non-Indo-European word, possibly from an Iranian compound *ha-maz-an- "(one) fighting together" [Watkins], but in folk etymology long derived from a- "without" + mazos "breasts," hence the story that the Amazons cut or burned off one breast so they could draw bowstrings more efficiently.\n

\nThe river in South America (originally called by the Spanish Rio Santa Maria de la Mar Dulce) rechristened by Francisco de Orellana, 1541, after an encounter with female warriors of the Tapuyas (or, as some say, beardless, long-haired male tribesmen; still others hold that the name is a corruption of a native word in Tupi or Guarani meaning "wave").

Wiktionary
amazon

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea are

  1. 2 A female warrior. 3 A tall, strong, or athletic woman. Etymology 2

    n. Any of the large parrots from the genus ''Amazona''. n. 1 A river of South America that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the South Atlantic. 2 A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin. 3 (non-gloss definition: Used attributively in compounds.) Etymology 3

    n. Amazon.com Inc, a very large internet retailer v

  2. (context transitive English) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick-and-mortar competition.

WordNet
amazon
  1. n. 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

Wikipedia
Amazon (automobile)

The Amazon was a cyclecar produced by Amazon Cars Ltd in Billiter Street, London, EC3, England from 1921 to 1922.

It featured a rear-mounted air-cooled twin 6/9 hp Coventry-Victor engine with chain drive to the rear wheels through a three-speed-and-reverse gearbox made by Juckes. To give a conventional appearance the 2-seater car had a dummy radiator at the front.

It cost £235.

Amazon (1999 TV series)

Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in first-run syndication between 1999 and 2000.

The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. The group soon comes into contact with a Native American tribe (The Fierce Ones), and relations are anything but friendly. The group is taken in by a mysterious tribe (The Chosen), who descended from 16th century British colonists who were lost in the Amazon. Relations with the Chosen are tenuous at best. Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets nest with a tribe of cannibals (The Jaguar People), led by an insane Canadian woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. The first season ended in a cliff-hanger, and a second season was never produced. The series retained sufficient interest that it was released on DVD in 2011.

A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper (publisher) on 8 Aug 2000.

The German title was Amazonas - Gefangene des Dschungels (Amazon - Prisoners of the Jungle).

Amazon (2008 TV series)

Amazon is a BBC documentary television series co-produced by the Endeavour Productions and Indus Films, and hosted by Bruce Parry.

Amazon (1997 film)

Amazon is a 1997 American short documentary film directed by Kieth Merrill. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The film features ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin, who discusses the role of rainforest conservation and the benefits of investigating it further in the interest of medical and scientific knowledge.

Amazon

Amazon or Amazone may refer to:

  • Amazons, a mythical race of woman warriors.
Amazon (video game)

Amazon is an interactive fiction graphic adventure game. The game was published by Telarium (formerly known as Trillium) in 1984 and written by Michael Crichton.

Amazon (chess)

An amazon (also known as a queen+knight compound) is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight (or, equivalently, like a rook, bishop, or knight). It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces (not including pawns). It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a queen, but may do so when moving as a knight. Below, it is given the symbol QN from Betza notation.

Amazon (2000 film)

Amazon is a 2000 French film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean Paul Belmondo.

It had admissions of 78,706.

Amazon (1990 film)

Amazon is a 1990 drama that was directed by the Finnish film director Mika Kaurismäki, who co-wrote the script with Richard Reitinger and John Reaves, the latter of whom contributed additional writing. The movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1990.

While shooting the movie Kaurismäki tried to minimize the movie and crew's impact on the environment, which he tried to minimize by choosing equipment that would have the least impact on the shooting location, the surrounding areas, and its inhabitants.

Usage examples of "amazon".

If Gina and Luci were any indication of the kind of vampire Amazons she was up against, Allison would have been more than happy to put off meeting Miriam.

The term Alto Amazonas or High Amazon is also applied to all above the Negro.

Now, astonishingly, it appeared that a dialect of Athapaskan might have migrated as far south as the Peruvian Amazon.

When the Amazons relaxed, confident in their victory, the Atlantians concluded a secret alliance with the orgons and overthrew the women warriors.

A heartbeat later, a burst of automatic weapons fire threw the muscular amazon back against the fence, where the barbed razor-wire held her bullet-riddled body erect even after her spirit was driven from her flesh.

The worker bees were,beginning to crowd them together, which meant almost certain death for the smaller queen in the embrace of the Amazon.

And everyone knows the story of Achilles and Penthesilea: how that hero of the Trojan War, after besting and slaying that Queen of the Amazons, further dishonored her by having sexual intercourse with her corpse.

Up the newly formed Amazon came a twenty-thousand-ton ship from Bremerhaven, Germany, its dark flag flying in the jungle breeze, its nose pointed toward Manaus.

He expended every round in the Bullpup, let go, and pulled the Taurus and the Amazon.

John Bushland, lived on nearby Pleasant Street with his new wife, Janice, and their four Amazon parrots.

Yage, Ayuahuasca, Pilde, Nateema are Indian names for Bannisteria Caapi, a fast growing vine indigenous to the Amazon region.

At ten years of age, Calliste attended her first battle with the other Amazons, and Ariadne had led them with strength and iron determination.

And here is the plain of Doeas, and near are the three cities of the Amazons, and after them the Chalybes, most wretched of men, possess a soil rugged and unyielding sons of toil, they busy themselves with working iron.

Rick commented through chattering teeth, as the Supernal Hero cowered behind Clitoria the Amazon.

The Conibo warrior was no longer facing the darkness of the Amazon Indian gallery.