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GERONIMO
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• GERONIMO (noun)
The noun GERONIMO has 1 sense:
1. Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)
Familiarity information: GERONIMO used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Apache (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)
Indian chief; Indian chieftain (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
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