Amazons

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1. In classical mythology, a nation of warrior women. The Amazons burned or cut off one of their breasts so that they could use a bow and arrow more efficiently in war.

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Figuratively, an “Amazon” is a large, strong, aggressive woman.

The Amazon River of South America was so named because tribes of women warriors were believed to live along its banks.

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“These guys are spending a ton of money creating these tools in the first place—so the Microsoft, Amazons, Googles,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

The roots of the Greek presence in the Black Sea are steeped in myth: from the journey of Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis, to the Amazons.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

They want these people to sit down with them — the big guns, the Hulus and the Netflixes and the Amazons.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Those fearsome figures provide one of the major reference points for modern incarnations of Amazons because they were encountered by 18th- and 19th-century Europeans, as major facilitators in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2023

She made the Amazons think that Hercules was going to carry off their queen, and they charged down on his ship.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton