Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun geronimo

1 sense of geronimo

Sense 1
Geronimo -- (Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909))
       INSTANCE OF=> Indian chief, Indian chieftain -- (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
       INSTANCE OF=> 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)