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proper nounˈaməz(ə)n A river in South America, flowing over 6,683 km (4,150 miles) through Peru, Colombia, and Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean. It drains two fifths of the continent and in terms of water flow it is the largest river in the world.
Origin The river bore various names after it was first encountered by Europeans in 1500 and was finally called Amazon after a legendary race of female warriors believed to live on its banks. In Greek legend the Amazons were a race of female warriors who were supposed to exist in the unexplored regions of the north. The word Amazon is Greek for ‘without a breast’, referring to the story that the women cut off their right breasts in order to draw their bows more easily. Nowadays an Amazon is any tall, strong, or athletic woman. The River Amazon was given its name by European explorers because of stories that a race of female warriors lived on its banks.
nounˈaməz(ə)n 1A member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia (near the Black Sea in modern Russia) or elsewhere on the edge of the known world. Example sentencesExamples - In the 5th century political symbolism was couched in mythological terms, and the battles of gods and giants, Greeks and Amazons or Trojans, and Lapiths and centaurs stood for the historical battles of the Persian Wars.
- Some radical historians, Bacher said, believed the tribe was descended from seafaring Scythian Amazons fleeing the encroachment of imperial Greece.
- The first theme relates to the Christian iconography of Charity, and the eighteenth-century cult of Nature, as we shall see; the second to classical mythology about virgin goddesses and warrior Amazons.
- What makes all this more ironic is that these exhausted women were the original Amazons, the warrior caste Alexander supposedly would not fight.
- These legendary Amazons appear in several Greek fables.
- While Boadicea was a warrior woman, the Amazons were not, primarily because their existence is wholly fictitious.
- Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons.
- Theseus defeated the Amazons in battle and took one of their captive leaders as his wife or concubine.
- Still, there seems to be a kind of secretive admiration of the Amazons by the male myth makers.
- Eleanor and some of her entourage appeared before the barons dressed as Amazons, declaring their willingness to fight for Christ.
- Hippolyta is the conquered queen of Amazons who marries Theseus and returns to Athens with him.
- The very idea of the Amazons, of ruthless women warriors who live apart from men, excites people at a deep level.
- Perhaps the most widely known of legendary women warriors are the Greek Amazons and the Nordic Valkyries.
- The ancient Greeks believed that there had been Amazons and celebrated their victory over them.
- The ancient Herodotus thought the Amazons did exist, but were extinct by the time that he lived.
- 1.1 A very tall and strong or athletic woman.
Example sentencesExamples - She was not taller than me, perhaps, but an amazon among most her age and gender.
- They are gorgeous, sexy, and tough as nails - amazons with attitude.
- Contrary to the myth that older women don't play sports, these Amazons all happen to be over 30.
- He's a small man - four feet tall, I'd say - with an Amazon for a wife.
2A parrot, typically green, found in Central and South America. Genus Amazona, family Psittacidae: numerous species Example sentencesExamples - A very high proportion of Amazon parrots are threatened with extinction because of their slow rate of reproduction.
- More than other parrot species, Amazons are well known for their strong or often moody characters.
- Vocally they are distinct from other parrots although any Amazon in a mixed collection may mimic other sounds.
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as ‘without a breast’ (as if from a- ‘without’ + mazos ‘breast’), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word. proper noun A river in South America that flows more than 4,150 miles (6,683 km) through Peru, Colombia, and Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean. It drains two-fifths of the continent and, in terms of water-flow, is the largest river in the world.
Origin The river bore various names after it was first encountered by Europeans in 1500 and was finally called Amazon after a legendary race of female warriors believed to live on its banks. noun 1A member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia (near the Black Sea in modern Russia) or elsewhere on the edge of the known world. Example sentencesExamples - Theseus defeated the Amazons in battle and took one of their captive leaders as his wife or concubine.
- The ancient Greeks believed that there had been Amazons and celebrated their victory over them.
- Hippolyta is the conquered queen of Amazons who marries Theseus and returns to Athens with him.
- Perhaps the most widely known of legendary women warriors are the Greek Amazons and the Nordic Valkyries.
- The first theme relates to the Christian iconography of Charity, and the eighteenth-century cult of Nature, as we shall see; the second to classical mythology about virgin goddesses and warrior Amazons.
- The very idea of the Amazons, of ruthless women warriors who live apart from men, excites people at a deep level.
- Some radical historians, Bacher said, believed the tribe was descended from seafaring Scythian Amazons fleeing the encroachment of imperial Greece.
- These legendary Amazons appear in several Greek fables.
- What makes all this more ironic is that these exhausted women were the original Amazons, the warrior caste Alexander supposedly would not fight.
- Still, there seems to be a kind of secretive admiration of the Amazons by the male myth makers.
- In the 5th century political symbolism was couched in mythological terms, and the battles of gods and giants, Greeks and Amazons or Trojans, and Lapiths and centaurs stood for the historical battles of the Persian Wars.
- While Boadicea was a warrior woman, the Amazons were not, primarily because their existence is wholly fictitious.
- The ancient Herodotus thought the Amazons did exist, but were extinct by the time that he lived.
- Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons.
- Eleanor and some of her entourage appeared before the barons dressed as Amazons, declaring their willingness to fight for Christ.
- 1.1 A tall and strong or athletic woman.
Example sentencesExamples - She was not taller than me, perhaps, but an amazon among most her age and gender.
- Contrary to the myth that older women don't play sports, these Amazons all happen to be over 30.
- He's a small man - four feet tall, I'd say - with an Amazon for a wife.
- They are gorgeous, sexy, and tough as nails - amazons with attitude.
2A parrot, typically green, found in Central and South America. Genus Amazona, family Psittacidae: numerous species Example sentencesExamples - More than other parrot species, Amazons are well known for their strong or often moody characters.
- A very high proportion of Amazon parrots are threatened with extinction because of their slow rate of reproduction.
- Vocally they are distinct from other parrots although any Amazon in a mixed collection may mimic other sounds.
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as ‘without a breast’ (as if from a- ‘without’ + mazos ‘breast’), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word. |