Amazonianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Amazon +‎ -ian.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /æməˈzoʊni.ən/, /æməˈzoʊnjən/
• 韻: -əʊniən

形容詞

Amazonian (comparative more Amazonian, superlative most Amazonian)

1. Of or relating to the Amazons; aggressive and warlike.
2. Having to do with the Amazon River in South America, and its surrounding region.
   • 2019 November 18, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'”, in The Guardian‎:

     The new numbers, showing almost 10,000 sq kms were lost in the year to August, were released as emboldened farm owners scuffled with forest defenders in Altamira, the Amazonian city at the heart of the recent devastation.

3. Of or relating to the most recent Martian geological time period.
4. (figuratively) Of a woman, very tall, strong and athletic.

   Women's tennis champions Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams are noted for their Amazonian physiques.

5. (figuratively) Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty; Herculean.
   • 1981 April 18, Michael Bronski, “Good Production ― Bad Play”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     It's to their credit that they are capable of such "transformations," as well as performing the amazonian task of surviving and working as a small theater.

   • 2004 July 15, Leslie Feinberg, “Roots of Russian 'homosexual subculture'”, in Workers World‎:

     Russian capitalism created an exploited economic class that was up against these common enemies at every turn and was forced to take on the Amazonian task of battling class rule, its ideology and state.

6. (informal, uncommon) Of or relating to Amazon.com, Inc..
   • 2016 March 11, McKenzie Templeton, “Navigating new Seattle, one Tinder date at a time”, in The Seattle Times:

     I’ve […] languidly sipped merlot while my Amazonian inamorato responds to a high-priority event.

派生語

固有名詞

Amazonian

1. The Amazonian geological period.

名詞

Amazonian (plural Amazonians)

1. An Amazon.
2. (informal) An employee of Amazon.com, Inc..

   Hyponym: Amabot

   • 2013, Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon:

     […] Amazonians like David Risher, who lead the first expansion into retail in the 1990s; Warren Jenson, Covey's short-lived successor as CFO; and Rick Dalzell, the former Army Ranger who was Amazon's CIO for a decade.

   • 2015 August 17, Krishnadev Calamur, quoting Jeff Bezos, “Amazon's Jeff Bezos Responds to Times Story on Working Conditions”, in The Atlantic‎:

     In a memo to his company’s 180,000 workers late Sunday, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos called the practices depicted in the story as “shockingly callous,” but said: “The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day.”

関連する語

• amazon

参考

• Noachian
• Hesperian

Further reading

• Amazonian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia