Amazon or Amazons may refer to:

• Amazons, members of a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology
• Amazon Rainforest, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America
• Amazon River, the largest river in the world by volume
• Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
• Amazon parrots, a large genus of parrot from the Americas, popular in aviculture

In commerce:

• Amazon.com, an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington
• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, an "independent feminist bookstore" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

In literature:

• Amazons (comics), legendary warrior women from the DC Comics universe associated with the superheroine Wonder Woman
• Swallows and Amazons (series), a series by Arthur Ransome about two girl sailors and would-be pirates
• Amazon (comics), also known as Man-Killer, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• The Amazon (book), a book by Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead

In music:

• Amazon (band), a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in 2002
• Amazon (Ruslana song), song by the winner of the 2004 Eurovision , Ruslana

In television and film:

• Amazons (1986 film), a 1986 Argentine adventure science fiction fantasy epic
• Amazon (TV series), a 1999 TV series adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1987 film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland
• Amazon Women in the Mood, an episode from the 3rd season of Futurama.

In vehicles:

• HMS Amazon, the name of four ships of the British Royal Navy
• Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956-1970
• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Amazon (automobile), an interwar British car

In other:

• Amazon (Fairy chess piece), a fairy chess piece which is used in some variants of chess
• Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey
• Amazon feminism, dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact
• Game of the Amazons, a board game
• Military - Col. Kadaffi's bodyguards, called "The Amazonian Guard"

See also

• Amazonas (disambiguation)

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