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Vinony

Amazon

proper noun

  1. longest river in South America
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noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæm.ə.zən/ / /ˈæm.ə.zɒn/ / /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/ / [ˈɛəm.əˌzɑn]

name

Etymology: Chosen by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a word beginning with 'A' which had existing connotations (see meanings listed in etymologies 1 & 2) of being exotic, different, and (as the Amazon River) the largest of its kind in the world.

  1. Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.

    “Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).”

noun

Etymology: From Amazon, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).

  1. A tall, strong, athletic woman.

    “Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.”

  2. 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.”

    “The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.”

  3. An amazon parrot.
  4. A position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis.

verb

Etymology: Chosen by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a word beginning with 'A' which had existing connotations (see meanings listed in etymologies 1 & 2) of being exotic, different, and (as the Amazon River) the largest of its kind in the world.

  1. 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.”

    “Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’”

  2. To order (something) on Amazon.

    “[…] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.””