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An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
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An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
He approached the throne reverently.
Before daylight, when the dragon flew home to sleep, he had burned up the hall and even the throne of the Geatish king.
Cities will burn as you fall to your knees / I will inhale the dust of my enemies / Watch from my throne as I sit up all high / They scream as they burn / I laugh as they die
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figuréLeadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
Queen Victoria sat upon the throne of England for 63 years.
The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.
40 Thou ſhalt be ouer my house, and according vnto thy word ſhall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater then thou.
Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
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The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.
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A toilet.
"If she has intestinal flu, you probably called while she was on the throne and she didn't want to admit it," Alan said dryly.
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A kind of stool used by drummers.
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A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
16 For by him were all things created that are in heauen, and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.
Étymologie
Inherited from Middle English trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “a seat, chair”). Superseded earlier seld (“seat, throne”).
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archaïqueTo place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
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archaïqueTo place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
True image of the Father, whether throned / In the bosom of bliss, and light of light.
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archaïqueTo be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
Formes
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- throned
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- throning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
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throne · An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
throttle · A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an…through · From one side or end of (something) to the other. So as to…throughout · In every part of; all through.