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: 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.Compare angel(def 1).
8. Facetious. a toilet.

verb (used with or without object), throned, thron·ing.

9. to sit on or as on a throne.

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

5. to place or be placed on a throne

n.mid-13c., from Old French trone (12c.), from Latin thronus, from Greek thronos “elevated seat, chair, throne,” from PIE root *dher- (2) “to hold firmly, support” (cf. Latin firmus “firm, steadfast, strong, stable,” Sanskrit dharma “statute, law;” see firm (adj.)). Colloquial meaning “toilet” is recorded from 1922. see power behind the throne.