noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Alternative form of apanage. alt-of, alternative

   "A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop."

2. 2
   a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family wordnet
3. 3
   any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   Alternative form of apanage. alt-of, alternative

Synonyms

All synonyms

accessionaccessoriesaccessoryaccompanimentaddendaaddendum

Example

More examples

"A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.