amazon

Plural: amazons

Noun

• A tall, strong, or assertive woman.
• a large strong and aggressive woman
• (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
• a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)
• mainly green tropical American parrots
• a tall, strong, athletic woman
• a fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight
• an amazon parrot
• a position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis

Examples

• Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.
• She played like an Amazon, fearlessly conquering the Scrabble board.

Synonyms

Amazon River, virago

Antonyms

mating press

Related Words

Amazonian, amazonian