Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Various Apache tribes offered strong resistance to encroachment on their territory in the latter half of the 19th century. Present-day Apache populations are located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
- noun Any of the Apachean languages of the Apache.
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- proper noun The
languages of any of severalAthabascan -speakingpeoples of theAmerican southwest excludingNavajo , i.e.Chiricahua ,Jicarilla ,Lipan ,Mescalero ,Plains Apache , orWestern Apache . - proper noun The town of Apache, Oklahoma (zipcode 73006)
- noun Any of several
Athabascan -speakingpeoples of theAmerican southwest excludingNavajo , i.e.Chiricahua ,Jicarilla ,Lipan ,Mescalero ,Plains Apache , orWestern Apache . - noun A person belonging to an Apache people.
- noun A Parisian gangster.
- noun AH-64 Apache, a U.S. military
helicopter .
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- noun the language of the Apache
- noun any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
- noun a Parisian gangster
Etymologies
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The word "Apache" -- the tribal name for N'de people -- originally came from the Zuni word "apachu," a derogatory term that means "enemy strangers."
Jay Tavare: Geronimo Jay Tavare 2011
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The word "Apache" -- the tribal name for N'de people -- originally came from the Zuni word "apachu," a derogatory term that means "enemy strangers."
Jay Tavare: Geronimo Jay Tavare 2011
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It is further evident that the term Apache came to be applied to this great division of the Athapascan family indirectly, as its component tribes are not known by that name in any of the Indian languages of the
The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910
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The winter of 1958 on the White Mountain Apache Reservation was hard.
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According the the White Mountain Apache Tribe, a raghorn elk is a bull having a maximum of four points on either beam with no broken points or beam.
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The winter of 1958 on the White Mountain Apache Reservation was hard.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Be advised, during a council meeting in Apache Junction, Arizona, on the evening of February 17th, 2009, Noel Benoist is once again speaking about Vietnam as though he is an expert on the country, this time associating himself with someone in religion who he states is from that country.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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According the the White Mountain Apache Tribe, a raghorn elk is a bull having a maximum of four points on either beam with no broken points or beam.
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Researchers tracked the health of 1,160 infants born to mothers on the Navajo and White Mountain Apache reservations in the Southwest during one of three flu seasons.
Why You Forget Birthdays Jeremy Singer-Vine 2010
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Some Vietnam veterans remember a Girl Cong sniper they called Apache who pinned them down and picked them off.
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