Pronunciations (2)
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/æməˈzoʊni.ən/
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/æməˈzoʊnjən/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adjective
Of or relating to the Amazons; aggressive and warlike.
Having to do with the Amazon River in South America, and its surrounding region.
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The new numbers, showing almost 10,000 sq kms were lost in the year to August, were released as emboldened farm owners scuffled with forest defenders in Altamira, the Amazonian city at the heart of the recent devastation.
Of or relating to the most recent Martian geological time period.
Of a woman, very tall, strong and athletic.
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Women's tennis champions Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams are noted for their Amazonian physiques.
Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty; Herculean.
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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.
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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.
Of or relating to Amazon.com, Inc..
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I’ve […] languidly sipped merlot while my Amazonian inamorato responds to a high-priority event.
Proper noun
The Amazonian geological period.
Noun
An Amazon.
An employee of Amazon.com, Inc..
Usage- Informal
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[…] 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.
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.”
The company said in a statement that the tool enabled “thousands of Amazonians to automate repetitive tasks each day” and was one example of the group “empowering teams” to experiment and adopt AI tools.