APACHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Apache mean? 

• APACHE (noun)
  The noun APACHE has 3 senses:

1. 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

2. a Parisian gangster

3. the language of the Apache

  Familiarity information: APACHE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APACHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Apache" is a kind of...):

Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)

Domain region:

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

Instance hyponyms:

Cochise (Apache leader of the resistance to United States troops in Arizona (1812-1874))

Geronimo (Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Parisian gangster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("apache" is a kind of...):

gangster; mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The language of the Apache

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Apache" is a kind of...):

Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Apache"):

Chiricahua Apache; San Carlos Apache (an Apache language)

 Context examples 

After that came a long newspaper story about how a miners’ camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was my Frank’s name among the killed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The announcement was made Friday by Lawrence Molnar, professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his students, and fellow astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO), New Mexico, and the University of Wyoming at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

Frank had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to ’Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the very morning of my second wedding.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)