plural Apache or Apaches
ə-ˈpa-chēz 
-ˈpash,
-ˈpa-shəz
1
: a member of a group of Indigenous 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
Examples of Apache in a Sentence
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Originally constructed in the early 1870s, the trail stretched for 200 miles along the edge of the Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona between Fort Verde and Fort Apache.
—
Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
Sometimes this manifests in his studio or through collaboration, with the jingle dress dancers at the Biennale or more experimental practitioners like the White Mountain Apache musician Laura Ortman.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
The story concerns a group of strangers brought together by circumstance, traveling on a stage bound for New Mexico through dangerous Apache territory.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
McCord previously worked as a middle school teacher at a charter school in Apache Junction.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
Thunder itself is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
The victim was hanging out at his friend’s house on Mescalero Apache land in May 2022 when Dennett Jerome Chee, a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, and another man came over, according to a March 26 news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
The company touted its ticketing platform’s reliability in handling heavy demand for concerts by Taylor Swift, Rammstein, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Apache 207 and Paul McCartney.
—Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
Sally Marks, a spokeswoman for the Apache Junction Unified School District, where Waggoner works, tells PEOPLE he was hired on July 18 and started at the elementary school on Aug. 7.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
Sometimes this manifests in his studio or through collaboration, with the jingle dress dancers at the Biennale or more experimental practitioners like the White Mountain Apache musician Laura Ortman.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
The story concerns a group of strangers brought together by circumstance, traveling on a stage bound for New Mexico through dangerous Apache territory.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
McCord previously worked as a middle school teacher at a charter school in Apache Junction.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
Thunder itself is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
The victim was hanging out at his friend’s house on Mescalero Apache land in May 2022 when Dennett Jerome Chee, a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, and another man came over, according to a March 26 news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
The company touted its ticketing platform’s reliability in handling heavy demand for concerts by Taylor Swift, Rammstein, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Apache 207 and Paul McCartney.
—Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
Sally Marks, a spokeswoman for the Apache Junction Unified School District, where Waggoner works, tells PEOPLE he was hired on July 18 and started at the elementary school on Aug. 7.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
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Apache
noun
plural Apache or Apaches
: a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the American Southwest
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