Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

Places

South America

* Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river *

Amazon basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Boli ...

, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries * Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin

Elsewhere

1042 Amazone 1042 Amazone, provisional designation , is a dark asteroid and slow rotator in the outer asteroid belt, approximately 70 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 April 1925, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in s ...

, an asteroid *

Amazon Creek Amazon Creek is a stream that runs through southeastern and western Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is a tributary of the Long Tom River and is Eugene's second-largest waterway after the Willamette River. Background Amazon Creek's headwaters ...

, a stream in Oregon, US

People

Amazon Eve Erika Ervin (born February 23, 1979), known professionally as Amazon Eve, is an American model, fitness trainer, and actress. She has appeared on the cover of Australian magazine '' Zoo Weekly'' and played a regular character on '' American ...

(born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress * Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

Art and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain

Man-Killer Man-Killer is a name used by two supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The second version Katrina Luisa Van Horn has been viewed by critics as a "caricature of feminists, who despised all men." Publicatio ...

Amazons (DC Comics) The Amazons of DC Comics are a race of warrior women who exist as part of Greek mythology. They live on Paradise Island, later known as Themyscira, an isolated location in the middle of the ocean where they are hidden from Man's World (the res ...

, a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, a ''

Diablo II ''Diablo II'' is an action role-playing hack-and-slash video game developed by Blizzard North and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Classic Mac OS, and macOS. The game, with its dark fantasy and horror themes, ...

'' character * The Amazon, a ''

Pro Wrestling Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or ...

'' character * ''

Kamen Rider Amazon is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. The fourth installment to be produced as part of the Kamen Rider Series, the series aired in Japan from late 1974 to early 1975 on the NET and Mainichi Broadcasting System. It was the shortest ''Kamen ...

'', title character in the fourth installment of the ''Kamen Rider'' series

Film and television

* ''The Amazons'' (1917 film), an American silent tragedy * ''The Amazon'' (film), a 1921 German silent film * ''

War Goddess A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in both monotheistic and polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been por ...

'', also known as ''The Amazons'', a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama * ''Amazons'' (1984 film), an American thriller * ''Amazons'' (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy * ''Amazon'' (1990 film), a 1990 drama * ''Amazon'' (1997 film), a short documentary * ''Amazon'' (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama * ''Amazon'' (2000 film), a 2000 French film * ''Amazon'' (2008 TV series), a British documentary series

Games

Amazon (chess) The amazon, also known as the queen+knight compound, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight. It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the king and the pawn. The amazon can force checkmate ...

, a fairy chess piece *

Amazons (solitaire) Amazons is an old patience or card solitaire game which is played with a single deck of playing cards. The game is played with a Piquet pack minus the kings or a standard 52-card pack that has its twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, and kings remo ...

, a card game * ''Amazon'' (video game), a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game * '' Amazon: Guardians of Eden'', a 1991 video game * '' Game of the Amazons'', a board game

Literature

* ''Amazons'' (novel), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell * '' Amazons!'', a fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson * ''Swallows and Amazons'' series, a series of twelve children's books by Arthur Ransome * ''The Amazon'' (novella), by Nikolai Leskov * ''The Amazons'' (play), by Arthur Wing Pinero

Music

* The Amazons (band), a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire

Military units

* Amazonian Guard, or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi * Amazons Company, a Greek ceremonial female battalion *

Dahomey Amazons The Dahomey Mino ( Fon: Agojie, Agoji, Mino, or Minon) were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (in today's Benin, West Africa) that existed from the 17th century until the late 19th century. They are one of the few doc ...

, a Fon regiment

Organizations

Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was a feminist bookstore located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operated from 1970 to 2012. It was the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. The shop was named after the Amazons, a mythological tribe of fier ...

, a former feminist bookstore * Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer * Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team *

Takembeng Takembeng or Takumbeng are a female social movement in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. These movements connect with traditional practices common throughout the Western grassfields of Cameroon where groups of women perform ostracizing rituals ag ...

, or les Amazones des SDF, a women's social movement in Cameroon

Transportation

Land vehicles

* Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar * ''Amazon'', a

GWR 3031 Class The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built a ...

locomotive operating 1892–1908 * ''Amazon'', a

GWR Iron Duke Class The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work. History The prototype locomotive, ''Great Western'', was built as a 2-2-2 locomotive in April 1846, but was soon co ...

locomotive operating 1851–1877 *

Volvo Amazon The Volvo Amazon was a mid-sized car manufactured and marketed by Volvo Cars from 1956 to 1970 and introduced in the United States as the ''122S'' at the 1959 New York International Auto Show. The Amazon shared the wheelbase, tall posture and h ...

, a 1956–1970 mid-size car

Ships

* ''Amazon'' (1780 ship), launched in France in 1775 under another name * ''Amazon'' (brigantine), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861 * ''Amazon'' (yacht), a British screw schooner built 1885 * ''Amazon''-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy * ''Amazon''-class sloop, of the British Royal Navy * French submarine ''Amazone'' (1916), an Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine * HMS ''Amazon'', nine ships of the Royal Navy * RMS ''Amazon'', two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company * SMS ''Amazone'' (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy * SMS ''Amazone'', a 1900 2,700 ton ''Gazelle''-class light cruiser * USS ''Amazon'' (1861), a US Navy bark

Other uses

Amazon (color) Jungle green is a color that is a rich tone of medium spring green. The specific tone of the color ''jungle green'' called "jungle green" by Crayola, displayed at right, was formulated by Crayola in 1990. The first recorded use of ''jungle gre ...

, a variant of jungle green *

Amazon parrot Amazon parrots are parrots in the genus ''Amazona''. They are medium-sized, short-tailed parrots native to the Americas, with their range extending from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean. ''Amazona'' is one of the 92 genera of parrots ...