throne (thrōn)
n.

1. A chair occupied by an exalted personage, such as a sovereign or bishop, on state or ceremonial occasions, often situated on a dais and sometimes having a canopy and ornate decoration.
2. 1. A personage who occupies a throne.
   2. The power, dignity, or rank of such a personage; sovereignty.
3. thrones Christianity. The third of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

tr. & intr.v., throned, thron·ing, thrones.
To install in or occupy a throne.

[Middle English, alteration of trone, from Old French, from Latin thronus, from Greek thronos.]

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