throne
/θɹoʊ̯n/ noun C1- 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.
- Leadership, 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.
- The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
- A toilet.
- A kind of stool used by drummers.
- A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
Plural thrones
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So the Tin Woodman followed him and came to the great Throne Room.
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne.
“‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
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