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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.
Example Sentences
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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
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
“Ercole” concerns one of Hercules’ dozen labors, this one requiring him to obtain the weapons from Antiope, the queen of the Amazons.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2023
‘The queen of the Amazons and the lieutenant of Artemis both rushing to Puerto Rico on a moment’s notice to intercept us - I’m guessing that’s not because you missed me.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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