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Amazonian

[ am-uh-zoh-nee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. (of a woman) characteristic of or like an Amazon; powerful and aggressive; warlike.
  2. pertaining to the Amazon River or the country adjacent to it.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the area adjoining the Amazon River.

Amazonian

/ æməˈzəʊnɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Amazon river, the land around it, or the inhabitants of this land


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Amazonian1

First recorded in 1585–95; Amazon + -ian

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Example Sentences

By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast.

In 1993, some 73 Yanomami Indians died in clashes with Amazonian gold miners.

Dr. Amy Lehman is the Amazonian like surgeon whose mission is to build a state of the art medical clinic--on a boat.

Television to develop a take on the lasso-happy Amazonian warrior.

Amazonian Field, by Antony Gormley, is one particularly evocative example.

In Dahomey the Amazonian guards of the king perform all military duty with equal ease and thoroughness with men.

Her vigour was truly Amazonian, and at no time had I ever occasion to contend with a more formidable opponent.

Those who have traversed the Amazonian forests have made the same remark.

But she was, nevertheless, a heroine of the Amazonian species.

These found themselves 'courageously resisted by the towns-men and-women, Amazonian-like.'

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