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Definition of Geronimo
1. Noun. Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909).
Definition of Geronimo
1. Interjection. A cry before jumping out of or into something (originally by American parachutists). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geronimo
Literary usage of Geronimo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 by Warren King Moorehead (1914)
"geronimo, driven from one side of the American-Mexican border to the other ...
When geronimo met General Miles, the interpreter said, "General Miles is your ..."
2. Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn (1904)
"geronimo Answers General Crook—The Red Commander Outwits the White ... By that,
we, who were acquainted with their ways, knew that geronimo was going to ..."
3. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1919)
"May God be pleased to dispose things in such a way that their conversion to our
Holy faith may not be greatly delayed, etc. Thus far Father geronimo ..."
4. Annals of the Artists of Spain by William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"Miguel and geronimo Garcia were twin-brothers, and canons of the collegiate church
of San ... Fray geronimo Melgarejo was an Augustine friar of Granada. ..."
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