throne room

See also: throneroom and throne-room

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

throne room (plural throne rooms)

1. A room with a throne, particularly
   1. A room used for formal public audiences by a monarch.
      • 2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, →ISBN, page 138:

        The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity.

   2. (humorous euphemistic slang) A bathroom: a room with a toilet, especially one in one's home.

Synonyms

• (lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Translations

a monarch's formal audience chamber

• Armenian: գահասրահ (hy) (gahasrah)
• Danish: trolsal c
• Dutch: troonzaal (nl) f
• Finnish: valtaistuinsali, valtaistuinhuone
• Russian: тронный зал (tronnyj zal)

toilet — see toilet