apache

A-pach-e · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A member of any of several Native American peoples of the southwestern United States.

  2. 2.

    Any of the Southern Athabaskan languages spoken by Apache peoples.

  3. 3.

    (computing) A widely used open-source web server software.

  4. 4.

    A type of U.S. military attack helicopter.

Forms

plural: Apaches/Apache

Related words

See also: Native American, Navajo

Etymology

From Zuni apachu ("enemy"), applied by the Zuni to the Navajo and later extended to other groups. The name was adopted into Spanish and then English.