throne

[throhn]

noun

1. the chair or seat occupied by a sovereign, bishop, or other exalted personage on ceremonial occasions, usually raised on a dais and covered with a canopy.

2. the office or dignity of a sovereign.

   He came to the throne by succession.

3. the occupant of a throne; sovereign.

4. sovereign power or authority.

   to address one's pleas to the throne.

5. an episcopal office or authority.

   the diocesan throne.

6. mourners' bench.

7. thrones, an order of angels.

8. Facetious.,  a toilet.

verb (used with or without object)

throned, throning 

1. to sit on or as on a throne.

throne

/ θrəʊn /

noun

1. the ceremonial seat occupied by a monarch, bishop, etc on occasions of state

2. the power, duties, or rank ascribed to a royal person

3. a person holding royal rank

4. (plural; often capital) the third of the nine orders into which the angels are traditionally divided in medieval angelology

verb

1. to place or be placed on a throne

Other Word Forms

• throneless adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of throne¹

1175–1225; Middle English < Latin thronus < Greek thrónos high seat; replacing Middle English trone < Old French < Latin, as above

Word History and Origins

Origin of throne¹

C13: from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Greek thronos throne

Idioms and Phrases

see power behind the throne.

Example Sentences

But it has shown an heir to the throne managing the stresses of family with his future on his mind.

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"I couldn't get the words out," recalled Ozzy, adding that it had been "torture" to have to sit down on a throne to perform due to a serious spinal injury.

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Rolling Stone described the rapper's sophomore record as a "fittingly grand return for a queen who never left the throne".

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They dined at the property with Queen Camilla and King Charles III before he ascended to the throne.

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Ronson glances over to the VIP area, where Prince is holding court in a plush throne.

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