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Canon
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- 1 Clipping of canonical. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"The franchise's book spinoff is usually not considered canon."
- 1 A surname.
- 2 The Canon of the Mass. with-definite-article
- 1 A generally accepted principle; a rule. countable, uncountable
"The trial must proceed according to the canons of law."
- 2 A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- 3 Alternative spelling of qanun. alt-of, alternative
- 4 Alternative spelling of cannon (“weapon”). alt-of, alternative, obsolete
- 5 Obsolete spelling of canyon. alt-of, obsolete
"[page 247:] the most wonderful depressions, gorges, canons, or valleys ever discovered. [page 249:] Some two miles on we come to where the three canons begin. [page 329:] the Canons of the Colorado River. This gave Moran his subject for a second painting, which he called the "Grand Chasm of the Colorado" [...]"
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- 6 Alternative letter-case form of canon: a member of a chapter. alt-of
- 7 a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired wordnet
- 8 A generally accepted principle; a rule.; A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art. countable, uncountable
"the Canon of Polykleitos"
- 9 A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- 10 Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”). alt-of, alternative
- 11 Title for a canon.
"Canon Smith is our new parish priest."
- 12 a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church wordnet
- 13 A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field. countable, uncountable
"Russo had been working as a salesman, selling Great Books of the Western World, hawking the canon to the rubes."
- 14 a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy wordnet
- 15 The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic. countable, uncountable
"the entire Shakespearean canon"
- 16 a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts wordnet
- 17 A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon. countable, uncountable
- 18 a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall wordnet
- 19 A religious law or body of law decreed by the church. countable, uncountable
"We must proceed according to canon law."
- 20 a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter wordnet
- 21 A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. countable, uncountable
- 22 In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. countable, uncountable
- 23 A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round. countable, uncountable
"Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular."
- 24 A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius Roman, countable, uncountable
"The lessees of public lands had to pay a perpetual rent or "canon" at some periodical time."
- 25 Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe; (metonymic) these sources' content. slang, uncountable
"A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon."
- 26 Alternative form of cannon (“rolled and filleted loin of meat”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"a canon of beef or lamb"
- 27 A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point. dated, uncountable
- 28 The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon and Old English canon, both from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew קָנֶה (qane, “reed”) and Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane, cannon, canyon, canal.
From Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Old Northern French canoine).
From Spanish cañón, spelling it without the diacritics.
* As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon. * As a French topographical surname, from placenames derived from canne (“reed, cane, tube”). * As a Chaldean/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic surname, variant of Kanon, Kanoun, from [script needed] (Kānūn), the Classical Syriac name of the ninth and tenth months of the Assyrian calendar, from ܟܢܘܢ ܒ.
* As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon. * As a French topographical surname, from placenames derived from canne (“reed, cane, tube”). * As a Chaldean/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic surname, variant of Kanon, Kanoun, from [script needed] (Kānūn), the Classical Syriac name of the ninth and tenth months of the Assyrian calendar, from ܟܢܘܢ ܒ.
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