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amazon

/ˈæm.əˌzɑn/

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What does amazon mean?

noun

  1. A tall, strong, athletic woman.
  2. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
  3. An amazon parrot.
More meanings (10)

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
  3. A female warrior.
  4. A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
  5. Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.

verb

  1. To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.
  2. To order (something) on Amazon.

proper noun

  1. A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.
  2. A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
  3. Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.
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IPA pronunciation

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The swelling of the affluents of the Amazon, and indeed of most large rivers, is regulated by a similar law.
George P. (George Perkins) MarshThe Earth as Modified by Human ActionProject Gutenberg ebook #6019
For exploring the unmapped regions of the Amazon or the upper reaches of the Chinese rivers the airship offers unbounded facilities.
George WhaleBritish Airships, Past, Present, and FutureProject Gutenberg ebook #762
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His wife was a magnificent Amazon, with saffron face and shining hair, uncorseted and barefooted, and the children were strong and beautiful.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
The Amazon, though belonging to the Hymenopteron clan, herself possesses rather limited homing-faculties, as witness her compulsory return by her former trail.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Mason-BeesTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #2884
The tree is one of the few in the Amazon region which sheds all its foliage before any of the new leaf-buds expand.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440