Amazonian

See also: amazon and amazonian

English

Etymology

From Amazon +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /æməˈzoʊni.ən/, /æməˈzoʊnjən/
• Rhymes: -əʊniən

Adjective

Amazonian (comparative more Amazonian, superlative most Amazonian)

1. Of or relating to the Amazons; aggressive and warlike.
2. Having to do with the Amazon River in South America, and its surrounding region.
3. Of or relating to the most recent Martian geological time period.
4. (of a woman) Very tall, strong and athletic.

   Women's Tennis champions Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams are noted for their Amazonian physiques.

5. Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty; Herculean.
   • 1981 April 18, Michael Bronski, “Good Production ― Bad Play”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     It's to their credit that they are capable of such "transformations," as well as performing the amazonian task of surviving and working as a small theater.

   • 2004 July 15, Leslie Feinberg, “Roots of Russian 'homosexual subculture'”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     Russian capitalism created an exploited economic class that was up against these common enemies at every turn and was forced to take on the Amazonian task of battling class rule, its ideology and state.

Translations

having to do with the Amazon River

• Greek: αμαζόνιος (el) (amazónios)
• Hungarian: amazonasi
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: amazônico (pt)

  European: amazónico (pt)

• Russian: амазо́нский (ru) (amazónskij)
• Spanish: amazónico (es)

of or relating to the Amazons

• French: amazonien (fr) m
• Greek: αμαζόνιος (el) (amazónios)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: amazônico (pt)

  European: amazónico (pt)

• Serbo-Croatian: amazonski (sh)
• Spanish: amazónico (es)

Proper noun

Amazonian

1. The Amazonian geological period.

Noun

Amazonian (plural Amazonians)

1. An Amazon.
2. (informal) An employee of Amazon.com, Inc..

   Hyponym: Amabot

   • 2013, Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon:

     […] Amazonians like David Risher, who lead^[sic] the first expansion into retail in the 1990s; Warren Jenson, Covey's short-lived successor as CFO; and Rick Dalzell, the former Army Ranger who was Amazon's CIO for a decade.

   • 2015 August 17, Krishnadev Calamur, quoting Jeff Bezos, “Amazon's Jeff Bezos Responds to Times Story on Working Conditions”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     In a memo to his company’s 180,000 workers late Sunday, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos called the practices depicted in the story as “shockingly callous,” but said: “The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day.”

Related terms

• amazon

See also

• Noachian
• Hesperian

Further reading

• Amazonian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Proper noun

Amazonian

1. genitive singular of Amazonia