Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: apache
IPA transcription: [əp'ætʃi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Apache
    Meaning: 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
Usage examples
  • "See, Senor Apache?
  • To be held paralyzed, with one's back toward some horrible and unknown danger from the very sound of which the ferocious Apache warriors turn in wild stampede, as a flock of sheep would madly flee from a pack of wolves, seems to me the last word in fearsome predicaments for a man who had ever been used to fighting for his life with all the energy of a powerful physique.