0 the special chair used by a ruler, especially a king or queen --
I can remember dad grabbing the newspaper and saying he'd be on the throne a while.
Charles is next in line to the throne (= will become king next).
Queen Victoria was on the throne (= was queen) at that time.
Elizabeth II ascended/came to the throne (= became queen of Britain) when her father died.
1 a special chair used by a king or queen, or the condition of being such a ruler: --
He is heir to the throne.
The story of the golden throne with its thirty-two puppets is, like life, both rational and irrational.
But when he gets to the throne and replaces this old king, he puts on the crown and is as cruel as the old king.
The position of a female consort was never stable until she had produced a male heir to the throne.
His only son, a five-year-old boy, was the undisputed heir to the throne.
Faced with political marginalization he acted against the clique who controlled the capital and seized the throne in 1290.
The placement of the potbelly sculpture on top of the pedestal and/or throne would be consistent with a portrayal of rulership.
On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.
Centuries of tradition dictated that a new monarch would assume the vacant throne, just as centuries of tradition would dictate the limits of his rule.