amazon

From Amazon, from Middle English [Term?], from Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.mə.zən/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.ə.zɔn/, /-ɒn/

amazon (plural amazons)

1. A tall, strong, athletic woman.

   Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.

2. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
3. An amazon parrot
4. A vaginal sexual position in which the penetrating partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the penetrating partner, squats onto their penis

   Antonym: mating press

• Amazonian
• amazonian

• “amazon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmɒzon]
• Hyphenation: ama‧zon
• Rhymes: -on

amaz +‎ -on

amazon

1. superessive singular of amaz

amazon

1. superessive singular of amaz

• azon
• ezen, emezen

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).[1]

amazon (plural amazonok)

1. (Greek mythology) Amazon (a member of a mythical race of female warriors)
2. amazon (a tall, strong, athletic woman)

• amazon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• amazon in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)