noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
abdicate the throne
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The king was forced to abdicate the throne .
accession to power/to the throne (= the act of becoming king, queen, president etc )
heir to the throne (= the person who will become king or queen )
succeed sb to the throne (= to be the next king or queen after someone else )
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Who will succeed him to the throne?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
imperial
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Who would rise to claim the Imperial throne ?
■ NOUN
room
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Joseph looked wildly round the throne room , expecting to see the emperor and the Resident Superior bolting for cover.
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When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him.
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She had first seen it on one of the standards fluttering in the throne room .
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The heat in the throne room was building up.
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The major ran through the front door of the Palace, heading for the throne room .
■ VERB
abdicate
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Romero reportedly has abdicated his throne , which could give Johnson his opportunity at last.
accede
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He acceded to the throne of Hanover upon his father's death, 18 November 1851.
ascend
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The original sovereign continued to be struck until 1603, when James I ascended the throne , but was revived in 1817.
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Start there, with Caliban ascending the throne .
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For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns.
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Primarily, however, her antics seem playful, befitting a king who ascended the throne at age 10.
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He acquired it partly by accident, for war was near when he ascended the throne .
come
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He was young, only ten years old, when he came to the throne .
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When Charles I came to the throne , Calvert resigned, but he did not lose favor.
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She came to the throne after a decade of war and rationing.
seize
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Given the apparent strength of Gloucester's position, it is difficult to argue that he was panicked into seizing the throne .
sit
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She sat as if on a throne: her dark eyes glowed.
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He sat on a throne outside the lion exhibit and wore an incongruous plastic gold crown.
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Skarsnik sat upon his iron throne and waited.
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Who was green and sat on the throne ?
succeed
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This, then, was the situation when Mary succeeded to the throne , and the rival factions lined up.
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Wenceslaus' son succeeded to the throne .
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When he succeeded to the throne in 1625, Buckingham became his chief minister.
take
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From this point contemporaries recognized that Richard was moving to take the throne .
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Crown Prince Abdullah became the heir-apparent after King Fahd took the throne in 1982.
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When the Empress Irene took the Eastern throne , Rome refused to recognise her authority.
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The Umayyads were finally overthrown and the first Abbasid, Abul-Abbas, took the throne .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ascend the throne
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For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns.
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He acquired it partly by accident, for war was near when he ascended the throne.
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Primarily, however, her antics seem playful, befitting a king who ascended the throne at age 10.
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Start there, with Caliban ascending the throne.
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The original sovereign continued to be struck until 1603, when James I ascended the throne, but was revived in 1817.
be first/second/next etc in line to the throne
restore sb to power/the throne
the power behind the throne
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After he had gone his two sons asserted their right to the throne , and each tried to be made king.
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Charlemagne's stone throne in the Octagon at Aachen Cathedral.
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Oedipus of course resigned the throne .
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On our retreat in the last year of school, a visiting priest talked to us from Sister Superior's throne .
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Or any other pretenders to the throne .
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The Church took the lead in rallying the forces which drove out the poles and established the Romanovs on the throne .
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When Charles I came to the throne , Calvert resigned, but he did not lose favor.