apanage
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- perquisite hypernym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- grant hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | perquisite |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | grant |