Definitions for throne

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throne throne

Spelling: [throhn]

IPA: /θroʊn/

Throne is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in throne (ehnort).

Definitions for throne

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:
3. the occupant of a throne; sovereign.
4. sovereign power or authority:
5. an episcopal office or authority:
6. mourners' bench.
7. thrones, an order of angels. Compare angel (def 1).
8. Facetious. a toilet.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to sit on or as on a throne.

Origin of throne

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

Examples for throne

At night, our couch will be on a platform surmounted by a canopy like a throne.

I feel myself to be back upon my throne when I look at them.

Then, as I sat here on this “throne,” this beautiful choir struck my ears and senses.

Fifty years before Queen Victoria had ascended the throne of England.

Either the help I implored wasn't good for me, or my voice couldn't soar to His throne.

So, when Juan Carlos was put on the throne by Franco, he was said to be stone broke.

The wonderful reign of Queen Elizabeth has everyone worried about what will happen when her crank of a son takes the throne.

The Tudors who succeeded Richard to the throne reinforced their own legitimacy by setting out systematically to trash him.

On the 5th of February the king attended and delivered the speech from the throne in person.

George is the first offspring of a “commoner” in 350 years to become heir to the throne.