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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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“I can’t compete with the Amazons and Targets,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025
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
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
Women occupied powerful positions in the kingdom and there was an all-female military regiment named by Westerners as the Dahomey Amazons.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021
A ragged circle of Romans and Amazons stood around Percy.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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