Amazon

**Amazon** maist commonly refers tae:

* The Amazon River in Sooth Americae, the lairgest watter in the warld bi vollum
* The Amazon rainforest, kent as Amazonia forby, the liargest mochie braidleaf forest in the Amazon Basin
* The Amazons, a legendar naition o female warriors in Greek meethology, frae whilk the name is derived
* Amazon.com, an American online merchan company based in Seattle, Washington

**Amazon** can forby refer tae:

## Geography
* The Amazon Basin, the pairt o Sooth Americae drained bi the Amazon River an its tributaries
** Amazônia Legal, the pairt o the Amazon jungle whilk is in Brazil
** The Peruvian Amazon, the Amazon jungle in Peruvian territory
* Amazon Creek, a tributar o the Lang Tom River, Eugene, Oregon, Unitit States

## Fowk
**Amazon** is an eponym, derived frae the legend, for ony wumman kemp or athlete, includin:
* Amazon, nom de guerre o a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
* The Dahomey Amazons, an aw-female regiment o the Kinrick o Dahomey
* Amazon feminism, a brainch o feminism that emphasises weemanlie phìsical prowess
* The Amazonian Guard, an aw-weemen bodyguard unit o Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
* Amazons, or les Amazones des SDF, the Takembeng female protesters o Cameroon
* The Los Angeles Amazons, a weemen's semi-professional American fitbaa team

## Companies
* Amazon.com American multinaitional e-commerce company
* Amazon Beukstore Cooperative, a feminist beukstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, frae 1970-2012 
* Amazone, brand name o Amazonen-Werke, a German manufacturer o agricultural machinery

## Airts an entertainment
### Beuks
* ''The Amazon'' (novella), a short 1866 novel bi Nikolai Leskov
* *[[Swallows an Amazons]]*, a 1930 novel bi Arthur Ransome
***[[Swallows an Amazons series]]*, series o novelles bi Ransome
* *[[Amazons!]]*, a 1979 anthology o fantasy stories, editit bi Jessica Amanda Salmonson
** *[[Amazons II]]*, a 1982 seicont anthology o fantasy stories, editit bi Jessica Amanda Salmonson
* ''Amazons'' (novel), a 1980 novelle co-written bi Don DeLillo

### Comics
* Amazon, kent as Man-Killer forby, a Marvel Comics supervillain
* Amazon (Amalgam Comics), an amalgamation o DC's Wonder Weeman an Marvel's Storm
* Amazons (DC Comics), DC Comics warrior weemen chairacters associate wi Wonder Woman

### Film
* ''The Amazons'' (1917 film), a 1917 American silent film based on the 1893 play bi Arthur Wing Pinero
**The Amazons*, alternate title o *Le guerriere dal seno nudo*, 1973 film bi Terence Young (director)
* ''Amazons'' (1984 film), an American made-for-telly thriller directit bi Paul Michael Glaser
* ''Amazons'' (1986 film), an Argentine aventur fantasy
* ''Amazon'' (1997 film), a documentary anent the Amazon basin
* ''Thor an the Amazon Women'' (1963 film), directit bi Antonio Leonviola

### Gemmes
* Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece combinin the queen an the knight
* *[[Gemme o the Amazons]]*, a 1988 buird gemme played wi chess queens on a chess buird.
* Amazons (solitaire), a style o solitaire caird play
#### Computer gemmes
* The Amazon, a playable character in the 1986 video gemme ''Pro Wrestlin'' (Nintendo Entertainment Seestem)
* **, a 1992 computer gemme bi Access Saftware
* Amazon, a playable character in the 2000 computer gemme *[[Diablo II]]*

### Muisic
* *Amazon*, Inglish title o *[[Amazonka]]*, a 2008 album bi Ukrainian sangster Ruslana

### Sculpture
* Amazon statue types, a subject o auncient Greek an Roman sculpture

### Televeesion
* ''Amazon'' (1999 TV series), an adaptation o a Peter Benchley story
* ''Amazon'' (2008 TV series), a documentary aboot the Amazon basin
* *Amazon*, an upcomin series on the CW Telly Network

### Theatre
* ''The Amazons'' (play), an 1893 play bi Arthur Wing Pinero
* Amazon Theatre, or Teatro Amazonas, an opera hoose in Manaus, Brazil

## Life sciences
* Amazon Lily, a plant native tae Central an Sooth Americae
* Amazon parrots, a lairge genus o parrot frae the Americas
* Amazon Warld Zoo, a zoo on the Isle o Wight, Ingland

## Transportation
### Laund
* *Amazon*, a GWR Iron Duke Class stame locomotive run bi the Great Wastren Railwey in 1851
* *Amazon*, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive biggit bi Great Wastern Railwey in 1892
* Amazon (automobile), a 1920s Breetish cyclecaur
* Volvo Amazon, a caur model produced frae 1956–1970
* *Amazon*, class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1675 (later 47089), uised on Breetish Rail frae Aprile 1965 tae Juin 1987

### Sea
* ''Amazon'' class frigate, fower classes o frigate o the Breetish Ryal Navy
* ''Amazon'' class sloop o the Breetish Ryal Navy
* HMS ''Amazon'', nine ships o the Breetish Ryal Navy
* RMS ''Amazon'', twa ships o the Ryal Mail Steam Packet Company
* , a paiddle stamer at brent an sank on her deem veage in 1852
* , a Unitit States Navy bark
* *Amazon*, a Canadian brigantine lencht in 1861, baist kent unner its rechristened name, *[[Mary Celeste]]*
* ''Amazon'' (yacht), a Breetish screw schooner, biggit in 1885 as a stame yacht

## See also
* Amazonas (disambiguation), fur provinces an states named efter the Amazon Watter
* 1042 Amazone, an asteroid