appanage

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A form of apanage — A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.

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Meanings

nounappanage (plural appanages)

plural appanages

  1. alternativeAlternative form of apanage.

    A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop.

    1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
verbappanage (third-person singular simple present appanages, present participle appanaging, simple past and past participle appanaged)

present singular third person appanages · participle present appanaging · participle past appanaged · past appanaged

  1. alternativeAlternative form of apanage.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounany customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

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nouna grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

appanage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appanage

MLA

“appanage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appanage. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “appanage,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appanage.

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