(n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.
(n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.
(n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
(v. t.) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
(v. t.) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
(v. i.) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
Example Sentences:
(1) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(2) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(3) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(4) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(5) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(6) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
(7) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(8) The bestselling Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has offered to screen The Interview in his own independent cinema, in the wake of what he described as “a stunning display of corporate cowardice” from Sony and America’s cinema chains.
(9) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
(10) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
(11) Look back 25 years | Dirk Laabs Read more A few ruins away, near the remains of the throne room, 18-year-old Berliner, Sarah Akopova, is also sympathetic.
(12) Lumping HBO in with Fox's FX might give it extra leverage – smooth out those less successful seasons when it launches The Newsroom rather than Game of Thrones – or it might not.
(13) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
(14) He’s 66 and has waited for the throne all his life.
(15) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.
(16) Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
(17) The new queen would have died less than seven months later, handing the throne to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(18) If Muqrin does come to the throne, he is likely to be the last of the sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud), who died in 1953.
(19) As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet , and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.
(20) In the first series of Game of Thrones, he is shown serving a warrior king gone to seed and oppressed by serious marital problems.
Tudor
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her dark new short-story collection offers her a break from the Tudors.
(2) We would love to get married, so we were really disappointed,” Tudor says.
(3) Thoroughbred horses have been bred exclusively for racing in England since Tudor times and thoroughbred horse racing is now practised in over 40 countries and involves more than half-a-million horses worldwide.
(4) The tudor (tud) locus of Drosophila melanogaster is required during oogenesis for the formation of primordial germ cells and for normal abdominal segmentation.
(5) We went through an enormous sense of grief and loss, we had plans for our retirement and for travel which we had to reassess,” Tudor says.
(6) Tudor propagandists in the 16th century portrayed him in a negative light.
(7) But knowing that you have to stick to the facts of what the Celts wore, or how the Tudors treated illness, concentrates the mind.
(8) I know it is him – and I can tell you who did the wicked deed, it was Henry Tudor, without a shadow of a doubt, that's who killed him."
(9) As well as Emmanuel, there's Barry Sloane, who's swapped being Chester's resident psycho Niall (you remember: blew up a church to kill his own sister) to play the mysterious Aiden in Revenge; and Max Brown, who's starred in everything from Grange Hill to The Tudors, is now playing a womanising doctor in the CW Network's Beauty And The Beast.
(10) Theresa May 'acting like Tudor monarch' by denying MPs a Brexit vote Read more However, a Treasury source was keen to play down the idea of a split.
(12) Females homozygous for any one of the maternal-effect mutations, tudor, oskar, staufen, vasa, or valois give rise to embryos that lack localized polar granules, fail to form the germ cell lineage and have abdominal segment deletions.
(13) Mayhew and Tudor have renovated their home to make it easier for them to manage; they’ve travelled to China, Botswana and Vietnam, knowing such trips will become increasingly less likely as the illness progresses; and have become involved with Alzheimer’s Australia and younger onset dementia support groups.
(14) Sampson was “amazed by the apparent casualness” of the rickety offices in Tudor Street, which “seemed more like a family charity or an eccentric college than a commercial newspaper”.
(15) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(16) 9 Once through the gate follow Queens Road and take the third right into Tudor Road.
(17) Gérard Araud of France is known for throwing parties at his grand neo-Tudor residence, including the Vanity Fair bash that follows the White House correspondents’ dinner every year.
(18) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
(19) What neither the history nor the literature of the Tudor period can reveal to us, though, is the full depth and nature of Baelish's schemings – nor, because there are still two books of the series to be written, what his fate will be.
(20) The logic of saying the prime minister can trigger article 50 without first setting out to parliament the terms and basis upon which her government seeks to negotiate, indeed without even indicating the red lines she will seek to protect, would be to diminish parliament and assume the arrogant powers of a Tudor monarch,” he said.