Definitions for apanage

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apanage ap·a·nage

Spelling: [ap-uh-nij]

IPA: /ˈæp ə nɪdʒ/

Apanage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in apanage (aaaegnp).

Definitions for apanage

noun

1. appanage.
2. land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.
3. whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.
4. a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.

Origin of apanage

1595-1605; Middle French, Old French apanage, apeinaige, equivalent to apan(er) to endow (a younger son or daughter) with a maintenance (Medieval Latin appānāre; ap- ap-

Examples for apanage

His ill-gotten kingdom became 317 an apanage of the Mongol Empire.

Pause of an awful nature:—but Fleury does not hasten with the apanage, as promised.

Meanwhile he had his own apanage, "Landgraf" by rank he too; and had troubles enough with that of itself.

Thenceforward it was held as an apanage of the French crown, usually by a member of the royal family closely related to the king.

Khazaria became the apanage of his eldest son, and the centre of government amongst the eastern subjects of the Hun .

Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase in comitatum et baroniam.

These islands, which lie at a little distance south of Japan, had for centuries been regarded as an apanage of the Satsuma fief.