amazon

UK/ˈæm.ə.zən//ˈæm.əˌzɑn/

amazon noun: a tall, strong, athletic woman.

Noun (1)

amazon (plural amazons)

A tall, strong, athletic woman.
- Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.
A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
- 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, Bc1.2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, page 8
- The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF
An amazon parrot.
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.

Antonyms:

mating press

Noun (2) capitalized: Amazon

Amazon (plural Amazons)

(Greek) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
- 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.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 149
A female warrior.
- 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...1976, Xenia S. Williams, “The Power of History...or History Is Written by the Powerful”, in Dave Peterson, Jonathan Cross, Lyn Rosen, editors, A Gay Person's Guide to New England, 2nd edition
A tall, strong, or athletic woman.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Amazon

the Amazon

(attributive, sometimes) A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.
(attributive, sometimes) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
- 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.2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2025

Noun (3) capitalized: Amazon

Amazon (plural Amazons)

Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Amazon

Amazon

Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.
- 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).2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business

Verb capitalized: Amazon

Amazon (third-person singular simple present Amazons, present participle Amazoning, simple past and past participle Amazoned)

(transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.
- Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.1998 November 4, George Anders, “Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online Marketing Could Cause Sales Staffs And Distributors to Rebel — A...
- Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’1999 Aug, Andrew Wileman, “Smart cookies: Get set to Amazon”, in Management Today, page 79
(transitive) To order (something) on Amazon.
- […] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, quoting Josh Lora, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2025

amazon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

amazon in Tamil

தென் அமெரிக்க நதி, வீராங்கனை, விளையாட்டு வீராங்கனை, உயரமான, வலுவான, கட்டுடல் பெண்

amazon in Urdu

ایمیزون, ایمازون, امیزون

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amazon in Bengali: মর্দানি মেয়ে, জাঁহাবাজ মেয়ে
amazon in Telugu: అమెజాన్
amazon in Malayalam: ആമസോൺ നദി, ആമസോൺ എന്ന കമ്പനി
amazon in Kannada: ಅಮೆಜಾನ್, ಅಮೇಜಾನ್
amazon in Punjabi: ਐਮਾਜ਼ਾਨ, ਐਮਾਜ਼ੋਨ, ਅਮੇਜ਼ਨ
amazon in Gujarati: એમેઝોન, અમેઝોન
amazon in Odia: ଆମାଜନ୍, ଆମାଜନ, ଆମାଜୋନ
amazon in Nepali: अमेजन, एमेजोन, अमेजोन

Examples of amazon in a sentence

Maharajah and the Sepoys pits a single royal amazon for white against a standard chess army for black.
Amazon wants to use artificial intelligence to eliminate analysis paralysis for its consumers.
Amazon to New York: Fuhgeddaboudit! - Readers are split over Amazon’s change of plan for its HQ2.

All 24 example sentences with amazon

Antonyms of amazon

mating press

Forms of amazon

Noun
plural	amazons
plural	Amazons
Verb
third-person singular present	Amazons
present participle	Amazoning
past participle	Amazoned
past	Amazoned

Plural of amazon: amazons

Origin of amazon

From Amazon, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).

From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn); perhaps Ionian Greek pronunciation of Old Persian *hamazan- (“warrior”), as the Amazon women were known warriors. A popular folk etymology, of Ancient Greek provenance, claims that the word derives from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μαζός (mazós, “breast”), referencing the belief that Amazons cut off their right breast so that it would not hinder their ability to fire a bow or throw a spear.

From Spanish Río Amazonas. It is common belief that the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana fought a battle against a tribe of Tapuya natives, in which the women fought alongside the men, and that he derived the name from the Amazons in Greek mythology.

Words formed from amazon

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Questions about amazon

What does amazon mean?: Amazon means a tall, strong, athletic woman.
What is amazon in Hindi?: Amazon in Hindi is अमेज़ॅन, अमेज़न, एमेजॉन. See Amazon meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is amazon?: Amazon can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce amazon?: Amazon is pronounced /ˈæm.ə.zən/ (UK).
What is the plural of amazon?: The plural of amazon is amazons.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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