noun

• (Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
  "When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms."

name

• (sometimes attributive) A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.
• (sometimes attributive) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
  "Amazon milk frog"

verb

• (transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.
  "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."
• (transitive) To order (something) on Amazon.
  "[…] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”"

noun

• (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
  "In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1."