amazon

«amazon» in Mova's school dictionary: a huge river in South America and the great rainforest… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the Amazon — a river and rainforest; Amazon — a company; an amazon — a strong woman warrior)

meaning for a pupil

1) The Amazon is a huge river in South America and the great rainforest around it, the largest rainforest in the world. tree →

2) Amazon is a big company that sells things online and delivers them. tree →

3) In Greek stories, the Amazons were a tribe of strong women warriors. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, the Amazon rainforest is studied for its many animals and plants, its rain and its importance for the air and climate; it is being cut down, which harms nature. In everyday life, Amazon is a shop people order from online. In myths, Amazons are brave fighters. Phrases: the Amazon rainforest, the Amazon River, order from Amazon.

examples

• The Amazon River flows across Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. tree →
• Jaguars, sloths and toucans live in the Amazon rainforest. tree →
• Many trees in the Amazon are cut down each year. tree →
• Mum ordered a new lunchbox from Amazon. tree →
• The parcel from Amazon came the next day. tree →
• In the Greek story, the Amazons were fierce warriors. tree →
• The Amazon carries more water than any other river. tree →
• But Hera, his implacable enemy, assuming the form of an Amazon, spread the report in the town that a stranger was about to carry off their queen. tree →

note

It is a name, so write it with a capital letter: the Amazon. The river and rainforest take the: the Amazon; the company has no the. Myth: the Amazon is often called the lungs of the Earth, but much of the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny ocean plants too. Never share passwords or buy online without a grown-up.

In the corpora

• Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
• The Amazon carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's seas.
• The black caiman is the biggest predator of the Amazon, over four metres long, and hunts fish and capybaras at night.
• «Turbid» means muddy and cloudy; Kipling calls the Amazon «the turbid Amazon» again and again.
• Real life: hedgehogs live in Europe, Asia and Africa, not by the Amazon in South America.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «amazon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.