Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apache
3 senses of apache
Sense 1
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)
=> Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
Sense 2
apache -- (a Parisian gangster)
=> gangster, mobster -- (a criminal who is a member of gang)
Sense 3
Apache -- (the language of the Apache)
=> Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language -- (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))