Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See appanage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as appanage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
  • noun A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
  • noun any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

Etymologies

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From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare ("to give bread").

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