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apanages

apanages is the plural of apanage.

Meaning of apanage

Noun

apanage (plural apanages)

  1. (historical) 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. […]...
  2. 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

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What is apanages the plural of?
Apanages is the plural of apanage.

Words near apanages in the dictionary

  1. Apamenians
  2. apamin
  3. apan
  4. apanage
  5. apanaged
  6. apanages
  7. apanaging
  8. apancreatic
  9. apandry
  10. Apaneca
  11. Apangi

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