• IPA: /ˈæpənɪdʒ/

apanage (plural apanages)

1. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
   • 1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], OCLC 794978313 ↗, part first, page 1 ↗:

     Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.

   • 1942: they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1046)
2. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position.

• French: apanage
• Portuguese: apanágio
• Russian: апанаж

apanage (apanages, present participle apanaging; past and past participle apanaged)

1. (transitive) To confer an apanage upon.