apache

1. 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

   BroaderAthapaskan

   NarrowerCochiseGeronimo

   Mexico

2. 2.

   a Parisian gangster

   Broadergangster
3. 3.

   the language of the Apache

   BroaderAthapaskan

   NarrowerChiricahua ApacheSan Carlos Apache

Other forms of apache

plural

apaches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apache

What does apache mean?

apache means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apache?

apache has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /əˈpætʃi/.

Is apache a common word?

apache is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with apache?

1 word rhymes with apache. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.