Apache
noun
ə-ˈpa-chē 
in sense 3
ə-ˈpash plural Apache or Apaches ə-ˈpa-chēz
-ˈpash,
-ˈpa-shəz
1
: a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the southwestern U.S.
2
: any of the Athabascan languages of the Apache people
3
not capitalized [French, from Apache Apache Indian]
a
: a member of a gang of criminals especially in Paris
b
: ruffian
Apachean
ə-ˈpa-chē-ən
adjective or noun 
Word History
Etymology
American Spanish, perhaps from Zuni ʔa·paču Navajo, Apachean
First Known Use
1703, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
Apache
noun
ə-ˈpa-chē
1
: a member of a tribe of indigenous people of the southwestern United States
2
: any of the languages of the Apache people
- rockhoundings
- rockhounds
- rockier
- rockiers
- rockies
- rockieses
- rockiest
- rockiness
- rockinesses
- rocking
- rocking and rolling
- rocking bar
- rocking bed
- rocking cam
- rocking chair
- rocking furnace
- rocking horse
- rocking lever
- rocking out
- rocking pier
- rocking rhythm
- rocking shaft
- rocking slide valve
- rocking stone
- rocking tool