'appanage' definitions:
Definition of 'appanage'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: appanage, apanage]
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" [syn: appanage, apanage]
Synonyms of 'appanage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accession,
- accessories,
- accessory,
- accompaniment,
- addenda,
- addendum,
- additament,
- addition,
- additive,
- additory,
- additum,
- adjunct,
- adjuvant,
- annex,
- annexation,
- appanages,
- appendage,
- appendages,
- appendant,
- appointments,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenances,
- appurtenant,
- attachment,
- augment,
- augmentation,
- belongings,
- birthright,
- choses,
- choses in action,
- choses in possession,
- choses local,
- choses transitory,
- coda,
- complement,
- concomitant,
- continuation,
- corollary,
- dot,
- dower,
- dowry,
- endowment,
- extension,
- extrapolation,
- fixture,
- foundation,
- increase,
- increment,
- investment,
- jointure,
- legal jointure,
- marriage portion,
- material things,
- movables,
- offshoot,
- paraphernalia,
- pendant,
- perquisite,
- perquisites,
- personal effects,
- portion,
- prerogative,
- privilege,
- reinforcement,
- settlement,
- side effect,
- side issue,
- supplement,
- tailpiece,
- things,
- thirds,
- trappings,
- undergirding