appanage meaning
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appanage (noun): any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
appanage has 2 meanings in this dictionary.
appanage as a noun
- any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
- for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use
Synonyms: apanage
Type of: fringe benefit
- a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
- bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families
Synonyms: apanage
Type of: grant
Scrabble score: 13 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with AP · words ending in GE · 8-letter words
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