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amazons

amazons is the plural of amazon.

Meaning of amazon

Noun

amazon (plural amazons)

  1. A tall, strong, athletic woman.
    • Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.
  2. 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
  3. An amazon parrot.
  4. 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

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Verb capitalized: Amazons

Amazons

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of Amazon

Noun capitalized: Amazons

Amazons

  1. (plural) plural of Amazon

Phrases with amazons

Questions about amazons

What is amazons the plural of?
Amazons is the plural of amazon.
What part of speech is amazons?
Amazons can be a verb or a noun.

Words near amazons in the dictionary

  1. Amazonomachiae
  2. Amazonomachiai
  3. Amazonomachias
  4. Amazonomachies
  5. Amazonomachy
  6. amazons
  7. amazonstone
  8. amazonstones
  9. amaZulu
  10. amb
  11. amb.

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