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Meaning of "appanage" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APPANAGE

From Old French, from Medieval Latin appānāgium, from appānāre to provide for, from Latin pānis bread.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF APPANAGE

ˈæpənɪdʒ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APPANAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Appanage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES APPANAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Appanage

An appanage or apanage or French: apanage is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture. It was common in much of Europe. The system of appanage has greatly influenced the territorial construction of France and the German states and explains the structure of the flags of many provinces of France. Appanage also describes the funds given by the state to certain royal families — the annual income, for instance, given to the Swedish and Danish Royal Families. For the Mongols, khubi refers to appanage in the Middle Ages.

Definition of appanage in the English dictionary

The definition of appanage in the dictionary is land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son. Other definition of appanage is a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APPANAGE

alienage · apanage · baronage · cartonage · commonage · cousinage · cozenage · gallonage · orphanage · parsonage · patronage · peonage · personage · siphonage · Stevenage · tamponage · vicinage · villanage · villenage · wagonage

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APPANAGE

appall · appalled · appalling · appallingly · Appaloosa · appalto · appanaged · apparat · apparatchik · apparatus · apparatus criticus · apparel · apparelled · apparelling · apparelment · apparent

WORDS THAT END LIKE APPANAGE

amenage · carnage · coinage · comanage · cranage · drainage · empennage · espionage · industrial espionage · manage · micromanage · mismanage · overmanage · signage · stage-manage · tannage · teenage · thanage · tonnage · voisinage

Synonyms and antonyms of appanage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «appanage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APPANAGE

Find out the translation of appanage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of appanage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «appanage» in English.
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封禄
1,325 millions of speakers
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appanage
570 millions of speakers
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English

appanage
510 millions of speakers
hi

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appanage
380 millions of speakers
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appanage
280 millions of speakers
ru

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удельный
278 millions of speakers
pt

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apanágio
270 millions of speakers
bn

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উপাঙ্গ
260 millions of speakers
fr

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apanage
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Selera
190 millions of speakers
de

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Apanage
180 millions of speakers
ja

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appanage
130 millions of speakers
ko

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부수입
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Appanage
85 millions of speakers
vi

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phần riêng
80 millions of speakers
ta

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appanage
75 millions of speakers
mr

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वानर
75 millions of speakers
tr

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doğuştan yetenek
70 millions of speakers
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appanage
65 millions of speakers
pl

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udzielnych
50 millions of speakers
uk

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питома
40 millions of speakers
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apanaj
30 millions of speakers
el

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appanage
15 millions of speakers
af

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appanage
14 millions of speakers
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apanage
10 millions of speakers
no

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appanage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of appanage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APPANAGE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about appanage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APPANAGE»

Discover the use of appanage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to appanage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of ...
The council accepted this offer in April 1785.32 When interpreting the figures for royal expenditure in the généralité of Tours, therefore, one must take into consideration not only the creation of the appanage in 1771 but also other important ...
Albert N. Hamscher, 2012
2
Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to ...
THE 'APPANAGE SYSTEM' Internally, life in Russia at this time was dominated by the strengthening of the appanage system. Under this system, during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and part of the fifteenth centuries, the right of succession to the ...
Robert Auty, Dimitri Obolensky, 1981
3
Russian Identities : A Historical Survey: A Historical Survey
Appanage. and. Muscovite. Russia. The Kievan legacy stood the Russians in good stead. It brought them a uniform religion, a common language and literature , and, with numerous regional and local modifications, common arts and culture.
Berkeley (Emeritus) Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Professor of History University of California, 2005
4
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, ...
The king's obligation to his sisters and daughters was not an appanage but marriage. The letters patent stipulated the renunciation of the beneficiary to all lands and seigneuries, whether joined or not to the Crown, and to all movable property ...
Roland Mousnier, 1979
5
A history of Russia
CHAPTER XV Survey of the position of the Russian land during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries——-The appanage system of princely rule under Vsevolod's successors—The princely appanage—The chiefitems of evidence with egard ...
V.O. Kluchevsky, C.J. Hogarth
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Reformist Muslims in Yagyakarta Village: The Islamic ...
2 The right to grant appanage was reserved for the ruler who was thought to have the sole proprietary right to the produce of the soil (Raffles,1965:137). Those entitled to receive appanage were royal families, court officials and favourites of the ...
Hyung-Jun Kim, 2007
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The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the ...
TRADITIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN KOTAGEDE The administration by the appanage system including key-keeper (furu/euncz) officials was in effect in Kotagede until 1920 when the new village (lealurahan) system was introduced.
Mitsuo Nakamura, 2012
8
Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the Nineteenth ...
or more accurately of his stewards, and sometimes they were cruelly exploited and mistreated.88 In the nineteenth century, in contrast to the eighteenth, the condition of the court peasants, or the appanage peasants as they now were called, ...
Jerome Blum, 1961
9
Slovak History: Chronology & Lexicon
Tevel appanage duke of Nitra 1 Zsolt (Zoltan) I Taksony approx. 131 - 110 appanage duke of Nitra Tormos Geza, approx. 110 - 111 appanage duke of Nitra, Grand Duke I Stephan I., Saint appanage duke of Nitra 115 - 911 Grand Duke 111 ...
Július Bartl, 2002
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The History of Russia
APPANAGE RUSSIA The half-century following the death of Iaroslav the Wise in 1054 saw a period of constant civil wars among his less able sons, Iziaslav, Sviatoslav, and Vsevolod. Next came a period of political fragmentation, ...
Charles E. Ziegler, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APPANAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term appanage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Serbia celebrates Sveti Sava
... ruled the appanage of Hum briefly in 1190-1192. He became a monk in his youth, receiving the monastic name Sava, subsequently founding ... «InSerbia News, Jan 15»
2
This Student Took on University of Alabama's Segregated Sororities …
... the University of Alabama "the academic department [has] the status of an appanage [i.e., adjunct] of fraternity row and a hired football team. «The New Republic, Nov 14»
3
Natural gas: A strategic choice
... slanted drilling and hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in the US where the lucrative knowhow is the appanage of a handful of hegemonic highly ... «Arab News, Aug 14»
4
Why Coins With a Black Man's Face Were Valued
The best-known aspect of his military appanage was his corps of fighting elephants intended to be deployed as an ancient type of battle tank ... «The Root, May 14»
5
CEO of "Srbijagas" the highest-paid Serbian government official …
Alo! reports that Bajatović receives appanage of 10,000 euros ($13,500) as the General Manager of the “South Stream Serbia” and as a ... «InSerbia News, Nov 13»
6
South Korea asks Japan to take down YouTube video claiming …
Smearing a country to get increased point of GDP growth or to divert one's population from domestic issues are not the appanage of a strong ... «The Japan Daily Press, Oct 13»
7
Why I shun the crass, expensive, naff Champs Elysees
... a northern French dukedom that was once the appanage of mediaeval kings of England, now has a line of nightclubs favoured by footballers, ... «BBC News, Oct 13»
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Japan's rearmament will not be overlooked by South Korea: Foreign …
This demonstration (not a riot) was by a small number of people. It was maybe a few hundreds, and this is the appanage of a democracy where ... «The Japan Daily Press, Oct 13»
9
Europe, Russia, and the Mess in Cyprus
There is a solution: he could simply have Russia back its own bailout and buy Cyprus outright, turning it into an appanage of Russia. «The National Interest Online, Mar 13»
10
Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia
It would have as consequence the re-establishment of the appanage of the king. The state of health of the king is delicate. The smallest mistake ... «Asia Times Online, Dec 12»
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