English words for 'Towards a throne.'
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verb
noun
- the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
- the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
- (music) A kind of stool used by drummers.
- (euphemistic) A toilet.
- The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
- (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
- (Christianity) A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
adj
noun
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- (music) An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
verb
- put a monarch on the throne
- provide with power and authority
- (transitive) to exalt, to praise
- (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation.
- (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture.
noun
- The crown of a monarch.
- A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
- (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
- An accolade or mark of honour.
- (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
- The top; the thing most prized.
- (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
verb
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- A success in the face of little or no opposition.
- (specifically, also attributively) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
- A completion or culmination of something.
- (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
- (Spanish politics) The parliamentary vote required to inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain.
- (specifically, chiefly historical) The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.
- That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
- The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
noun
- A royalty.
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
verb
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To rule over as king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
noun
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
verb
- (intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
- (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
- Misconstruction of secede.
- (transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
- (intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
- (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
- (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
- (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
- (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
- (intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
- be the successor (of)
- attain success or reach a desired goal
verb
- (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
- become king or queen
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- (incel slang, intramurally derogatory) To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- (transitive) To go up.
- (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
- come up, of celestial bodies
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go along towards (a river's) source
- go back in order of genealogical succession
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- slope upwards
- travel up
noun
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, famous for being the location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was formerly one of the county seats.
- Ellipsis of University of Cambridge.
- A town and village in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States.
- A village, the county seat of Henry County, Illinois, United States.
- A city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- A town in Waikato, New Zealand.
- A city, the county seat of Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States.
- A village in Slimbridge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England, situated on the local River Cam (OS grid ref SO7403).
- A city in Washington County, Idaho, United States.
- A local government area (the Town of Cambridge) in Perth, Western Australia.
- A suburb of the City of Clarence, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
- A city and local government district with borough status of Cambridgeshire, England, famous for its university.
- A city, the county seat of Isanti County, Minnesota, United States.
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A ghost town in Scioto Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States.
- A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
- An outer northern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
- A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
- The capital city of Scotland.
- A town in Bartholomew County, Johnson County and Shelby County, Indiana, United States.
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A census-designated place in North Carolina.
- A town in New South Wales, Australia.
- A cathedral city and local government district of Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales.
- A township in Camden County, New Jersey.
- A city in Massachusetts.
- A district and former municipality in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
noun
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A former city and census-designated place in Union County, Iowa, disincorporated in 2003.
- A town in Putnam County, New York.
- A ghost town in Colusa County, California.
- A tiny city in Wilkin County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
- A city in King County, Washington, United States; a suburb of Seattle.
- A town in Litchfield, Connecticut.
- An unincorporated community in Sherman County, Oregon.
- A city in Portage County, Ohio.
- A surname from Old English derived from the place name.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Nassau County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Stephenson County, Illinois.
- A coastal fishing village in the Western Area Rural District, Sierra Leone.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Republican Township, Jefferson County, Indiana.
- A hamlet in Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1310).
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
- A river in Cumbria, England, which flows into Morecambe Bay at Arnside.
- An unincorporated community in Elmore County, Alabama.
- The former name of Kentfield, a census-designated place in Marin County, California.
- A neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C..
- A district municipality of British Columbia, Canada.
- A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
- An unincorporated community in Culberson County, Texas.
noun
- A crown imperial.
- (historical) A suitcase or trunk designed to be transported on the roof of a carriage.
- A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
- A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
- (card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
- (historical) An outside or roof seat on a diligence or carriage.
- (paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
- (countable, uncountable) A variety of green tea.
- a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III
- a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach
adj
- (in particular, of alcohol) Stronger than typical. (Derived from the name of Russian Imperial stout, a strong dark beer.)
- Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
- Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
- Very grand or fine.
- Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
- befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress
- relating to or associated with an empire
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures
noun
- Initialism of royal crown.
- (Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Roman Catholic.
- Initialism of remote control.
- Initialism of radio control.
- Initialism of research chemicals (designer drug).
- Initialism of reformed church.
- Initialism of reinforced concrete.
- (Judaism) Initialism of red crystal, a Jewish symbol.
- Initialism of reverse circulation (drilling rig).
- (computing) Initialism of return code.
- Initialism of remote/radio controlled model.
- (law) Initialism of receiving and concealing (stolen property).
- Initialism of race committee.
- (software) Initialism of release candidate.
adj
name
verb
noun
- the position and authority of a feudal lord
- The estate of a feudal lord.
- the estate of a seigneur
- The power or authority of a lord; dominion.
- (law) The lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple.
- (historical) The elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.
noun
noun
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Access; admittance.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
- (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- Agreement.
- agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
- the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
- something added to what you already have
- (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
- a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
- the right to enter
verb
noun
- A grand duke.
- A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
- The sovereign of a small state.
- The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
- (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
- a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank
- a British peer of the highest rank
verb
noun
- The male ruler of a barony.
- A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
- (by extension) A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
- A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
- (UK, prison slang) A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
- a British peer of the lowest rank
- a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
noun
- Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
noun
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- The exercise of sovereign power.
- The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- The period during which a monarch rules.
verb
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- have sovereign power
- (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
- To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
- To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
noun
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- government free from external control
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
- (historical) Ellipsis of county palatine.
- (historical) A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders.
- (in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine bone.
- Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
- (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
- any of various important officials in ancient Rome
- either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
adj
- Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
- (anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
- Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
- (historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
- Synonym of palatial.
- relating to or lying near the palate
- of or relating to a palace
- of or relating to a count palatine and the palatine's royal prerogatives
noun
- a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
- the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
- a group of countries under a single authority
- a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
- A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
- The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
- (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
adj
noun
name
- A popular name for a dog.
- A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
- A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.
- (formal, usually italicized) The reigning king.
- An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.
noun
- The crown of a monarch.
- A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
- (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
- An accolade or mark of honour.
- (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
- The top; the thing most prized.
- (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
verb
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- A success in the face of little or no opposition.
- (specifically, also attributively) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
- A completion or culmination of something.
- (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
- (Spanish politics) The parliamentary vote required to inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain.
- (specifically, chiefly historical) The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.
- That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
- The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
noun
- A royalty.
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
verb
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
noun
noun
- A crown imperial.
- (historical) A suitcase or trunk designed to be transported on the roof of a carriage.
- A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
- A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
- (card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
- (historical) An outside or roof seat on a diligence or carriage.
- (paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
- (countable, uncountable) A variety of green tea.
- a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III
- a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach
adj
- (in particular, of alcohol) Stronger than typical. (Derived from the name of Russian Imperial stout, a strong dark beer.)
- Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
- Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
- Very grand or fine.
- Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
- befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress
- relating to or associated with an empire
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures
noun
- Initialism of royal crown.
- (Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Roman Catholic.
- Initialism of remote control.
- Initialism of radio control.
- Initialism of research chemicals (designer drug).
- Initialism of reformed church.
- Initialism of reinforced concrete.
- (Judaism) Initialism of red crystal, a Jewish symbol.
- Initialism of reverse circulation (drilling rig).
- (computing) Initialism of return code.
- Initialism of remote/radio controlled model.
- (law) Initialism of receiving and concealing (stolen property).
- Initialism of race committee.
- (software) Initialism of release candidate.
adj
name
verb
noun
- the position and authority of a feudal lord
- The estate of a feudal lord.
- the estate of a seigneur
- The power or authority of a lord; dominion.
- (law) The lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple.
- (historical) The elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.
noun
noun
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Access; admittance.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
- (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- Agreement.
- agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
- the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
- something added to what you already have
- (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
- a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
- the right to enter
verb
noun
- A grand duke.
- A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
- The sovereign of a small state.
- The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
- (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
- a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank
- a British peer of the highest rank
verb
noun
- The male ruler of a barony.
- A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
- (by extension) A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
- A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
- (UK, prison slang) A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
- a British peer of the lowest rank
- a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
noun
- Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
noun
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- The exercise of sovereign power.
- The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- The period during which a monarch rules.
verb
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- have sovereign power
- (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
- To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
- To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
noun
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- government free from external control
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
- (historical) Ellipsis of county palatine.
- (historical) A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders.
- (in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine bone.
- Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
- (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
- any of various important officials in ancient Rome
- either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
adj
- Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
- (anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
- Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
- (historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
- Synonym of palatial.
- relating to or lying near the palate
- of or relating to a palace
- of or relating to a count palatine and the palatine's royal prerogatives
noun
- a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
- the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
- a group of countries under a single authority
- a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
- A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
- The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
- (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
adj
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To rule over as king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
noun
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
noun
name
- A popular name for a dog.
- A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
- A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.
- (formal, usually italicized) The reigning king.
- An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.
verb
noun
- the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
- the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
- (music) A kind of stool used by drummers.
- (euphemistic) A toilet.
- The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
- (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
- (Christianity) A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
verb
- put a monarch on the throne
- provide with power and authority
- (transitive) to exalt, to praise
- (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation.
- (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture.
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To rule over as king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
noun
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
verb
- (intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
- (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
- Misconstruction of secede.
- (transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
- (intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
- (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
- (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
- (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
- (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
- (intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
- be the successor (of)
- attain success or reach a desired goal
verb
- (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
- become king or queen
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- (incel slang, intramurally derogatory) To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- (transitive) To go up.
- (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
- come up, of celestial bodies
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go along towards (a river's) source
- go back in order of genealogical succession
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- slope upwards
- travel up
adj
noun
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- (music) An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.