Amazon

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.ə.zən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.əˌzɑːn/

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From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).

Amazon (plural Amazons)

1. (Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
2. A female warrior.
3. A tall, strong, or athletic woman.

From Spanish, Río Amazonas. It is common belief that the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana fought a battle against a tribe of Tapuya natives, in which the women fought alongside the men, and that he derived the name from the Amazons in Greek mythology.

the Amazon

1. A river of South America that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the South Atlantic.
2. A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
3. Used attributively in compounds.

   the Amazon River; the Amazon Rainforest; the Amazon Basin

   Amazon milk frog

• Amazonian
• Amazon milk frog

Amazon (plural Amazons)

1. Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.

Chosen by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a word beginning with 'A' which had existing connotations (see meanings listed in etymologies 1 & 2) of being exotic, different, and (as the Amazon River) the largest of its kind in the world.[1]

Amazon

1. Amazon.com Inc, a very large internet retailer

Amazon (third-person singular simple present Amazons, present participle Amazoning, simple past and past participle Amazoned)

1. (transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick-and-mortar competition.
   • 1998, George Anders, "Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online Marketing Could Cause Sales Staffs And Distributors to Rebel — A Risk of Getting ‘Amazoned’", The Wall Street Journal, 1998-11-04, p. A1.

     Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.

   • 1999, Andrew Wileman, "Smart cookies: Get set to Amazon", Management Today. Aug 1999, p. 79

     Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’

   • 1999, Tim Smith, InternetWeek (786), "Getting Customers Totally Integrated – Cisco CIO Pete Solvik", 1999-10-25, p. 98

     Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "Amazoning" within their own industry.

   • 1999, "Amazon Expands", InternetWeek (789), 1999-11-15, p. 11

     Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning" a few more industries.

   • 2000, Bob Tedeschi, "E-Commerce Report: Web and catalog businesses are crossing into storefront territory, creating parallel avenues of retailing", The New York Times, 2000-11-20, p. C12

     Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....

   • 2001, Saul Hansell, "Web Sales of Airline Tickets Are Making Hefty Advances", The New York Times, 2001-07-04, p. A1

     In other industries, established companies are pulling people and money away from their Internet operations, as their fear of being "Amazoned" by start-ups has subsided.

   • 2001, Steve Lohr, "Gearhead Nation: A Time Out for Technophilia", The New York Times, 2001-11-18, p. WK4

     Meanwhile, traditional companies would be obliterated — "Amazoned" — by Internet upstarts.

   • 2002, Scott Harris, "Roots in Israel, Head in Silicon Valley", The New York Times, 2002-06-30, p. B8

     "Everybody was afraid of getting Amazoned," Mr. Landan said. "They didn't want to get left behind."

Amazon

1. Amazon (river)

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Amazon

1. Rōmaji transcription of アマゾン

from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmaː.zoːn/

Amāzōn f (genitive Amāzonis); third declension

1. an Amazon
2. a female warrior

Third declension, Greek type.

• Amazon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Amazon in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Amazon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 109/3