apaches Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    Apache.
  2. noun a Parisian gangster
    apache.
  3. noun the language of the Apache
    Apache.

WordNet

A*pa"ches noun plural
Wordforms
singular Apache
Definitions
  1. (Ethnol.) A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

Webster 1913