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apache

1

[ uh-pahsh, uh-pash; French a-pash ]

noun

, plural a·paches [uh, -, pah, -shiz, uh, -, pash, -iz, a, -, pash].
  1. a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.


Apache

2

[ uh-pach-ee ]

noun

, plural A·pach·es, (especially collectively) A·pach·e
  1. a member of an Athabascan people of the southwestern United States.
  2. any of the several Athabascan languages of Arizona and the Rio Grande basin.
  3. Military. a two-man U.S. Army helicopter designed to attack enemy armor with rockets or a 30mm gun and equipped for use in bad weather and in darkness.

adjective

  1. of or relating to an Athabascan people of the southwestern United States or their language.

Apache

1

/ əˈpætʃɪ /

noun

  1. ApachesApache a member of a North American Indian people, formerly nomadic and warlike, inhabiting the southwestern US and N Mexico
  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Athapascan group of the Na-Dene phylum


apache

2

/ əˈpɑːʃ; apaʃ; -ˈpæʃ /

noun

  1. a Parisian gangster or ruffian

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Word History and Origins

Origin of apache1

1735–45, Americanism; < French: Apache

Origin of apache2

First recorded in 1915–20; from Mexican Spanish, perhaps from Zuni ʔa·paču “Navajos,” presumably applied formerly to the Apacheans (Navajos and Apaches) generally

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Word History and Origins

Origin of apache1

from Mexican Spanish, probably from Zuñi Apachu, literally: enemy

Origin of apache2

from French: Apache

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Example Sentences

The whole operation used a series of brevity codes from the Indian Wars, and Jimbo was a quarter Apache.

The Army, however, has deployed some AH-64 Apache gunships into Iraq to strike at ISIS from close in.

Later, American settlers came to feel just the same way about this fierce Apache.

Born in 1829 near the Gila River in what is now Arizona, the legendary Indian warrior Geronimo was a Chiracahua Apache.

He was no Cochise or Mangas Coloradas—the two great Apache war chiefs he fought under.

When the Apache tornado burst out of the cañon upon the train, Thurstane's first thought was, "Clara!"

A practical-minded man, he preferred to owe the safety of his carcass to his rival rather than have it impaled on Apache lances.

Little Sweeny, finding that his mule was being crowded by an Apache's horse, uttered some indignant yelps.

Sweeny instantly fired, and brought down another Apache, quite accidentally.

At that short distance Sweeny would hardly have missed; and the nearest Apache, leaning forward with outspread arms, fell dead.

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