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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{wiktionary|Amazon|amazon}}<br />
'''Amazon''' most often refers to:<br />
* [[Amazon (company)]], an American multinational technology company<br />
* [[Amazon rainforest]], a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin<br />
* [[Amazon River]], in South America<br />
* [[Amazons]], a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology<br />
'''Amazon''' or '''Amazone''' may also refer to:<br />
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== Arts and entertainment ==<br />
=== Fictional characters ===<br />
* [[Amazon (Amalgam Comics)]]<br />
* Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain [[Man-Killer]]<br />
* [[Amazons (DC Comics)]], a group of superhuman characters<br />
* The Amazon, a ''[[Diablo II]]'' character<br />
* The Amazon, a ''[[Pro Wrestling (NES video game)|Pro Wrestling]]'' character<br />
* [[Amazon (Dragon's Crown)|Amazon (''Dragon's Crown'')]], a character from the ''Dragon's Crown'' game<br />
* ''[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]'', title character in the fourth installment of the ''Kamen Rider'' series<br />
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=== Film and television ===<br />
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* [[The Amazons (1917 film)|''The Amazons'' (1917 film)]], an American silent tragedy film<br />
* [[The Amazon (film)|''The Amazon'' (film)]], a 1921 German silent film<br />
* ''[[War Goddess]]'', also known as ''The Amazons'', a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama<br />
* [[Amazons (1984 film)|''Amazons'' (1984 film)]], an American thriller<br />
* [[Amazons (1986 film)|''Amazons'' (1986 film)]], an Argentine adventure fantasy<br />
* [[Amazon (1990 film)|''Amazon'' (1990 film)]], a 1990 drama<br />
* [[Amazon (1997 film)|''Amazon'' (1997 film)]], a short documentary<br />
* [[Amazon (1999 TV series)|''Amazon'' (1999 TV series)]], a Canadian drama<br />
* [[Amazon (2000 film)|''Amazon'' (2000 film)]], a 2000 French film<br />
* [[Amazon (2008 TV series)|''Amazon'' (2008 TV series)]], a British documentary series<br />
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=== Gaming ===<br />
* [[Amazon (chess)]], a fairy chess piece<br />
* [[Amazons (solitaire)]], a card game<br />
* [[Amazon (video game)|''Amazon'' (video game)]], a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game<br />
* ''[[Amazon: Guardians of Eden]]'', a 1992 video game<br />
* ''[[Game of the Amazons]]'', a board game<br />
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=== Literature ===<br />
* ''[[Amazons!]]'', a 1979 fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson<br />
* [[Amazons (novel)|''Amazons'' (novel)]], a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell<br />
* [[Swallows and Amazons series|''Swallows and Amazons'' series]], twelve children's novels by Arthur Ransome<br />
* [[The Amazon (novella)|''The Amazon'' (novella)]], by Nikolai Leskov<br />
* [[The Amazons (play)|''The Amazons'' (play)]], by Arthur Wing Pinero<br />
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=== Music ===<br />
* [[The Amazons (band)]], a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire<br />
**[[The Amazons (album)|''The Amazons'' (album)]]<br />
* [[Amazons (Japanese group)]], a female group formed in 1985<br />
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== Businesses and organizations ==<br />
* [[Amazon Bookstore Cooperative]], a feminist bookstore (1970–2012)<br />
* [[Amazonen-Werke]], a German agricultural machinery manufacturer (founded 1883)<br />
* [[Café Amazon]], Thai coffee chain<br />
* [[Takembeng]], or les Amazones des SDF, a 1990s women's social movement in Cameroon<br />
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== Military units ==<br />
* [[Amazonian Guard]], or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi<br />
* [[Amazons Company]], a Greek ceremonial female battalion<br />
* [[Dahomey Amazons]], a Fon regiment<br />
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== People ==<br />
* [[Amazon Eve]] (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress<br />
* [[Lesa Lewis]] (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"<br />
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== Places ==<br />
* [[Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin)]], a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river<br />
* [[Amazon basin]], the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries<br />
* [[Amazon Creek]], a stream in Oregon, U.S.<br />
* [[Amazon Reef]], at the mouth of the Amazon basin<br />
* [[1042 Amazone]], an asteroid<br />
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== Sports ==<br />
* [[COD United Amazons F.C.]], a women's association football club in Lagos State, Nigeria<br />
* [[Los Angeles Amazons]], a women's semi-professional American football team (2002–2012)<br />
* [[Nasarawa Amazons F.C.]], a women's association football club in Nasarawa State, Nigeria<br />
* [[Vancouver Amazons]], a Canadian women's ice hockey team of the 1920s<br />
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== Transportation ==<br />
=== Land vehicles ===<br />
* [[Amazon (automobile)]], a 1920s British cyclecar<br />
* ''Amazon'', a [[GWR 3031 Class]] locomotive operating 1892–1908<br />
* ''Amazon'', a [[GWR Iron Duke Class]] locomotive operating 1851–1877<br />
* [[Volvo Amazon]], a 1956–1970 mid-size car<br />
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=== Ships ===<br />
* [[Amazon (1780 ship)|''Amazon'' (1780 ship)]], launched in France in 1775 under another name<br />
* [[Mary Celeste|''Amazon'' (brigitane)]], a Canadian brigantine launched 1861, later more famously named ''Mary Celeste''<br />
* [[Amazon (yacht)|''Amazon'' (yacht)]], a British screw schooner built 1885<br />
* [[Amazon-class frigate|''Amazon''-class frigate]], four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy<br />
* [[Amazon-class sloop|''Amazon''-class sloop]], of the British Royal Navy<br />
* [[French submarine Amazone (1916)|French submarine ''Amazone'' (1916)]], an Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine<br />
* [[HMS Amazon|HMS ''Amazon'']], nine ships of the Royal Navy<br />
* [[RMS Amazon|RMS ''Amazon'']], two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company<br />
* [[SMS Amazone (1843)|SMS ''Amazone'' (1843)]], a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy<br />
* [[SMS Amazone|SMS ''Amazone'']], a 1900 2,700 ton ''Gazelle''-class light cruiser<br />
* [[USS Amazon (1861)|USS ''Amazon'' (1861)]], a US Navy bark<br />
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== Other uses ==<br />
* [[Amazon (color)]], a variant of jungle green<br />
*[[.amazon]], an Amazon.com-operated internet top-level domain<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* {{lookfrom|Amazon}}<br />
* {{intitle|Amazon}}<br />
* [[Amason (disambiguation)]]<br />
* [[Amazonas (disambiguation)]]<br />
* [[Amazonia (disambiguation)]]<br />
* [[Amazonian (disambiguation)]]<br />
* [[Amyzon (disambiguation)]]<br />
* ''[[Amazonka]]'', a 2008 album by Ruslana<br />
* [[Amazon parrot]], a bird genus<br />
* [[Amazonis Planitia]], on Mars<br />
* ''[[Amazonsaurus]]'', a dinosaur genus<br />
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