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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life;
- Example: "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"
[syn: appanage, apanage]

2. a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family;
- Example: "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"
[syn: appanage, apanage]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n. Same as Appanage. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

apanage n 1: any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use" [syn: appanage, apanage] 2: a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families" [syn: appanage, apanage]