Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Amazon River or to Amazonia.
- adjective Characteristic of or resembling an Amazon.
- adjective Strong and aggressive. Used of women.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon: in the following extract, beardless.
- Bold; of masculine manners; warlike; quarrelsome: applied to women.
- Belonging to the river Amazon, in South America, or to the country lying on that river.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the
Amazons ; aggressive andwarlike . - adjective Having to do with the Amazon River in
South America , and its surrounding region. - adjective Of or relating to the most recent
Martian geological time period . - adjective of a woman very tall, strong and
athletic . - proper noun The Amazonian geological period.
- noun An
Amazon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Contrary to the last controversial statements by Environment Minister Carlos Minc who has given assurances that Provisory Measure 458 is an “Environmental Victory”, the specialist in Amazonian human land occupation and agrarian warfare at the Department of Geography of São Paulo University (USP), professor Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira, has criticised the Measure and declared that: “The MP harms the constitutional principle of the social function of the land”.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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Nazis hoped to found empire in Amazonian rainforest
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Nazis hoped to found empire in Amazonian rainforest
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Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Due to this, the acai berry has earned the name Amazonian superfood.
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To the outside world, Gadhafi, 68, has ever appeared the bizarre tyrant — traveling to foreign cities with his own Bedouin tents and camels for fresh milk, and employing a phalanx of gun-toting female bodyguards known as the Amazonian Guard.
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To the outside world, Gadhafi, 68, has ever appeared the bizarre tyrant — traveling to foreign cities with his own Bedouin tents and camels for fresh milk, and employing a phalanx of gun-toting female bodyguards known as the Amazonian Guard.
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He had a personal escort known as the Amazonian guard, young women said to be martial-arts experts who often carried machine guns.
Eccentric and Brutal, He Met End as a Fugitive Richard Boudreaux 2011
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