Amazon

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The Amazons were a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology.

Amazon is an eponym, derived from the legend, for any woman warrior or athlete, including:

• Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
• Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey
• Amazon feminism, a branch of feminism that emphasizes female physical prowess
• Los Angeles Amazons, a women's semi-professional American football team

Amazon or Amazons may also refer to:

Geography

• Amazon River in South America, the largest river in the world by volume
  • Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
  • Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin
  • Amazônia Legal, the part of the Amazon jungle which is in Brazil
  • Peruvian Amazon, the Amazon jungle in Peruvian territory
• Amazon Creek, a tributary of the Long Tom River, Oregon, United States

Companies

• Amazon.com, an American on-line sales company based in Seattle, Washington
• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Arts & entertainment

Books

• The Amazon: The Story of a Great River, a 1970 work by Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead
• Amazons!, a 1979 anthology of fantasy stories
• Amazons (novel), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo
• Amazons II, a 1982 anthology of fantasy stories

Comics

• Amazons (DC Comics), DC Comics warrior women characters associated with Wonder Woman
• Amazon, also known as Man-Killer, a Marvel Comics supervillain character

Film

• Amazons (1984 film), an American made-for-television thriller directed by Paul Michael Glaser
• Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
• Amazon (1997 film), a documentary about the Amazon basin

Games

• Amazon, a fairy chess piece combining the queen and the knight
• Amazons (solitaire), a style of solitaire card play
• Game of the Amazons, a 1988 board game
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1992 computer game by Access Software

Music

• Amazon, English title of Amazonka, a 2008 album by Ukrainian singer Ruslana

Sculpture

• Amazon statue types, a subject of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture

Television

• Amazon (1999 TV series), an adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a documentary about the Amazon basin

Theatre

• Amazon Theatre, or Teatro Amazonas, an opera house in Manaus, Brazil

Life sciences

• Amazon Lily, a plant native to Central and South America
• Amazon parrots, a large genus of parrot from the Americas
• Amazon World Zoo, a zoo on the Isle of Wight, England

Transportation

Land

• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar
• Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956-1970

Sea

• Amazon class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
• Amazon class sloop of the British Royal Navy
• HMS Amazon, nine ships of the British Royal Navy
• RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
• USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark
• Amazon, a Canadian brigantine launched in 1861, best known under its rechristened name, Mary Celeste

See also

• Amazonas (disambiguation)

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