Amazon meaning

Noun: amazon

Pronunciation: (a-mu-zun)

Amazon meaning:

• A large strong and aggressive woman. (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)

Synonyms: virago

• A major South American river which arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world’s second longest river.

Quotations: Shirley Manson – I get female groupies, but I don’t get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They’re all talk and nay action as we’d say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I’m really tall. I’m five-eight, and with heels, I’m six foot, so people are like. ‘Whoa, Amazon!’ People are a wee taken aback by that ’cause I think people expect me to be small.

Gregory Asner – People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

Sample sentences:

• The Amazons were believed to have been a nation of all female warriors.
• Few Amazons have participated in Trojan war.
• The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world.