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GERONIMO

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Overview

GERONIMO (noun)
  The noun GERONIMO has 1 sense:

1. Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)play

  Familiarity information: GERONIMO used as a noun is very rare.


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GERONIMO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

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)

Indian chief; Indian chieftain (the leader of a group of Native Americans)


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