throne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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Etymology: From Middle English trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair, throne”). Superseded earlier seld (“seat, throne”).
Inflected forms:
form: thrones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
pos: noun
examples: He approached the throne reverently.
9 After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could nūber, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, & tongues, stood before the throne, & before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands:
10 And cryed with a loude voice, saying, Saluation to our God, which sitteth vpon the Throne, and vnto the Lambe.
11 And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glorie, and wisedome, and thankesgiuing, and honour, & power, and might be vnto our God for euer & euer, Amen.
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
gloss: Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Queen Victoria sat upon the throne of England for 63 years.
The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.
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.
gloss: The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
pos: noun
examples: Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.
gloss: A toilet.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: "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.
gloss: A kind of stool used by drummers.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Synonyms: toilet
and Thesaurus:bathroom
Derived words: chicken throne
dethrone
disthrone
enthrone
inthrone
inthronize
power behind the throne
rethrone
speech from the throne
thronal
thronedom
throneless
thronelet
thronelike
throne name
Throne of Wisdom
throne room
throneroom
throneship
Thronesiverse
throne sniffer
throne speech
Thronesverse
Throneverse
throne village
throneward
thronewards
throneworld
Thronie
thronize
unthrone
Translations:
lang: Latin
word: cathedra