APPANAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appanage mean? 

• APPANAGE (noun)
  The noun APPANAGE has 2 senses:

1. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

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

  Familiarity information: APPANAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPANAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

apanage; appanage

Context example:

for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use

Hypernyms ("appanage" is a kind of...):

fringe benefit; perk; perquisite (an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

apanage; appanage

Context example:

bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families

Hypernyms ("appanage" is a kind of...):

assignment; grant ((law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance)

 Context examples 

As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman—her legitimate appanage and heritage!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)