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  • adjective Having characteristics of the mythical Amazons; aggressive and warlike
  • adjective of a woman Tall, strong and athletic.

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Examples

  • Would we end up with some kind of amazonian woman's world were men felt marginalized and comic fan boys waved the issues in our faces saying it was fit more for a niche market of masochistic men with a jones for female domination that something for mass consumption?

    On GenderSwitching Avalon's Willow 2006

  • Now about this time of the year when I began my ballad, I was myself very plenteously and merrily in love with a certain lady whose name I will here set down as Ippolita, for that was what I called her, seeing in her a kind of amazonian carriage, though that was not the name she was known by among the men and the women, her neighbors.

    The God of Love 1898

  • What if he had a Brazilian blow-dart pipe stored in the locker room, loaded with the deadly poison of the amazonian horny toad, and aimed it at Javaris with his cheeks all puffed out?

    Matthew Yglesias » Agent Zero Suspended 2010

  • Besides, Wonder Woman was an amazonian … casting the lopsided midget as her is about as ignorant as the casting for Elektra.

    Wonder Woman Megan Fox | My[confined]Space 2009

  • I answer, "I could ask them to change their requests to some otems more suitable for an amazonian baby."

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • I say firmly, something I not usually am as I married the amazonian princess to be her Life Servant.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • I answer, "I could ask them to change their requests to some otems more suitable for an amazonian baby."

    Karena's Baby Shower (Part Two) 2010

  • They can't have any say in the choosing of an amazonian daughter's name.

    The Kidnapping Of Karena (Part One) 2010

  • I reply, I'm an amazonian warrior princess, and the fact that I am expecting my daughter soon does not deter me from any Starfleet duties.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • My distant ancestor Queen Sheena the Great was regarded as the greatest ever amazonian warrior.

    The Kidnapping Of Karena (Part One) 2010

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