apanage
/ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/
apanage noun: a grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
Noun
apanage (plural apanages)
- A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […]...
- they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1046
- A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
- For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company
Verb
apanage (third-person singular simple present apanages, present participle apanaging, simple past and past participle apanaged)
- To confer an apanage upon.
apanage meaning in Urdu and Indonesian
apanage in Urdu
- وظیفہ, وثیقہ, گزارہ, ماتحت صوبہ, پیدائشی حق
apanage in Indonesian
- grant as a birthright
- apanase
Forms of apanage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | apanages |
| alternative form | appanage |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | apanages |
| present participle | apanaging |
| past participle | apanaged |
| past | apanaged |
Origin of apanage
From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
Questions about apanage
- What does apanage mean?
- Apanage means a grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- What is apanage in Urdu?
- Apanage in Urdu is وظیفہ, وثیقہ, گزارہ. See Apanage meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is apanage?
- Apanage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce apanage?
- Apanage is pronounced /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of apanage?
- The plural of apanage is apanages.
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