apanage

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright. historical
    — Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.
  2. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
    — For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.
动词 v.
  1. To confer an apanage upon. transitive

词形变化

apanages plural appanage alternative apanages present,singular,third-person apanaging participle,present apanaged participle,past apanaged past appanage alternative

词源

词源 1
From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
词源 2
From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
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