Amazonian

amazon amazonian English Alternative forms en amazonian Etymology en :af Amazon -ian + 1 Pronunciation en /æməˈzoʊni.ən/ /æməˈzoʊnjən/ GenAm en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Amazonian.wav Southern England en əʊniən 5 Adjective Of or relating to the Amazons; aggressive and warlike. Having to do with the Amazon River in South America, and its surrounding region. en Jonathan Watts Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade' w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/18/amazon-deforestation-at-highest-level-in-a-decade 2019-11-18 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. en figuratively Of a woman, very tall, strong and athletic. en Women's tennis champions Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams are noted for their Amazonian physiques. en figuratively Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty; Herculean. en 18 Apr 81 Gay Community News 10 Michael Bronski Good Production ― Bad Play 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. en Workers World Leslie Feinberg https://ia804705.us.archive.org/23/items/lavender-and-red/Lavender_and_Red.pdf#page=30 Roots of Russian 'homosexual subculture' 15 July 04 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. en informal uncommon Of or relating to Amazon (company) Amazon.com, Inc.. en The Seattle Times Navigating new Seattle, one Tinder date at a time McKenzie Templeton 2016-03-11 I’ve canoodled on rooftops of shockingly expensive Capitol Hill apartments, Netflix-and-chilled in South Lake Union units with sweeping waterfront views, and languidly sipped merlot while my Amazonian inamorato responds to a high-priority event. Derived terms en Amazonianist glamazonian Amazonian giant centipede Translations having to do with the Amazon River Catalan: ca amazònic Greek: el αμαζόνιος Hungarian: hu amazonasi Italian: it amazzonico Portuguese: Brazilian Portuguese: pt amazônico European Portuguese: pt amazónico Russian: ru амазо́нский Spanish: es amazónico, es amazonio of or relating to the Amazons Catalan: ca amazònic French: fr amazonien m Greek: el αμαζόνιος Italian: it amazzonico Portuguese: Brazilian Portuguese: pt amazônico European Portuguese: pt amazónico Serbo-Croatian: sh amazonski Spanish: es amazónico, es amazonio Proper noun The Amazonian geological period. Noun An Amazon. en informal An employee of Amazon (company) Amazon.com, Inc.. en Amabot en 2013 Brad Stone The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Amazonians like David Risher, who lead 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. en https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/amazon-jeff-bezos-response-times/401456/ Amazon's Jeff Bezos Responds to Times Story on Working Conditions The Atlantic 2015-08-17 Krishnadev Calamur Jeff Bezos 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.” https://web.archive.org/web/20250409212357/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/amazon-jeff-bezos-response-times/401456/ 9 April 2025 en Rafe Rosner-Uddin Financial Times Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/ May 12, 2026 Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260826102545/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/ 26 August 2026 Related terms en amazon See also en Noachian en Hesperian Further reading en People Finnish Proper noun fi proper noun form fi Amazonia gen s