Meaning of Amazon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tall, strong, athletic woman.
2. Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.
3. Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.
4. Amazon (a river in Brazil)
5. A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
   Greek
6. A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.
   attributive, sometimes
7. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
8. a state of the North Region, Brazil; capital: Manaus
9. A female warrior.
10. A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
    attributive, sometimes
11. An amazon parrot.
12. Amazonas (a region of Peru)
13. A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
14. A position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis.
15. Amazonas (a department of Colombia)
16. Amazonas (a state of Venezuela)

Equivalents

Examples

“When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.”

“In some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, amazon cultures still existed during the Middle Ages, such as that ruled by Queen Nzingha in Angola, who led her amazon army against the Portuguese in a series of wars during the first half of the seventeenth century. In Dahomey also in traditionally gynarchal West Africa, the army was made up of amazons even through the nineteenth century.”

“Amazon milk frog”

“In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.”

“Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).”

“Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.”

“In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1.”

“The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.”

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