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

/ apaʃ; əˈpɑːʃ; -ˈpæʃ /

noun

1. a Parisian gangster or ruffian

Apache

²

/ 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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of apache¹

from French: Apache

Origin of apache²

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

Example Sentences

The girl had collected plants from Oak Flat that have the “spirit of Chic’chil Bildagoteel,” the name of the sacred spot in the Apache language.

From Washington Post

In a lawsuit, John Welch, an expert in Apache anthropology, said there is no evidence that the United States “compensated the Apache treaty rights holders” for Oak Flat, even though a map from the 1800s shows it as land that belonged to the Apaches.

From Washington Post

Known as "the land of the standing-up rocks" by the Apache, Chiricahua National Monument was used as a hiding place by Cochise and Geronimo during the Apache Wars in the 1800s.

From Outside Online

Alternatively, if you want you can also download this fake Apache log file.

From Search Engine Land

If you don’t know what technology is on your servers, chances are they are using either Apache or Nginx.

From Search Engine Land

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg