Amazon

Amazon usually refers to:

Amazons, a tribe of woman warriors in Greek mythology
Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
Amazon River, in South America
Amazon (company), a multinational technology company

Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

Places

South America

Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river
Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries
Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin

Elsewhere

1042 Amazone, an asteroid
Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, United States

People

Amazon, the nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress
Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

Art and entertainment

Fictional characters

Amazon (Amalgam Comics)
Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer
Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters
The Amazon, a Diablo II character
The Amazon, a Pro Wrestling character

Film and television

The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent tragedy
The Amazon (film), a 1921 German silent film
War Goddess, also known as The Amazons, a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama
Amazons (1984 film), an American thriller
Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
Amazon (1990 film), a 1990 drama
Amazon (1997 film), a short documentary
Amazon (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama
Amazon (2000 film), a 2000 French film
Amazon (2008 TV series), a British documentary series

Games

Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece
Amazons (solitaire), a card game
Amazon (video game), a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game
Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1991 video game
Game of the Amazons, a board game

Literature

Amazons (novel), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell
Amazons!, a fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Swallows and Amazons series, a series of twelve children's books by Arthur Ransome
The Amazon (novella), by Nikolai Leskov
The Amazons (play), by Arthur Wing Pinero

Music

The Amazons (band), a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire

Military units

Amazonian Guard, or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
Amazons Company, a Greek ceremonial female battalion
Dahomey Amazons, a Fon regiment

Organizations

Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a former feminist bookstore
Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer
Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team
Takembeng, or les Amazones des SDF, a women's social movement in Cameroon

Transportation

Land vehicles

Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar
Amazon, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive operating 1892–1908
Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive operating 1851–1877
Volvo Amazon, a 1956–1970 mid-size car

Ships

Amazon (1780 ship), launched in France in 1775 under another name
Amazon (brigantine), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861
Amazon (yacht), a British screw schooner built 1885
Amazon-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
Amazon-class sloop, of the British Royal Navy
French submarine Amazone (1916), an Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine
HMS Amazon, nine ships of the Royal Navy
RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
SMS Amazone, a 1900 2,700 ton Gazelle-class light cruiser
USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark

Other uses

Amazon (color), a variant of jungle green
Amazon parrot

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