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appenage

appenage is the alternative form 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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Forms of appenage

pluralappenages

Questions about appenage

What is appenage the alternative form of?
Appenage is the alternative form of apanage.

Words near appenage in the dictionary

  1. appellee
  2. appellees
  3. appels
  4. Appelt
  5. Appelts
  6. appenage
  7. appenages
  8. append
  9. appendable
  10. appendage
  11. appendageal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appenage (page history and authors); apanage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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