Definitions for Canon

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Canon can·on

Spelling: [kan-uh n]

IPA: /ˈkæn ən/

Canon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Canon (acnno).

Definitions for Canon

noun

1. an ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope.
2. the body of ecclesiastical law.
3. the body of rules, principles, or standards accepted as axiomatic and universally binding in a field of study or art:
4. a fundamental principle or general rule:
5. a standard; criterion:
6. the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired.
7. any officially recognized set of sacred books.
8. any comprehensive list of books within a field.
9. the works of an author that have been accepted as authentic: Compare apocrypha (def 3).
10. established or agreed-upon constraints governing the background narrative, setting, storyline, characters, etc., in a particular fictional world:
11. a catalog or list, as of the saints acknowledged by the Church.
12. Liturgy. the part of the Mass between the Sanctus and the Communion.
13. Eastern Church. a liturgical sequence sung at matins, usually consisting of nine odes arranged in a fixed pattern.
14. Music. consistent, note-for-note imitation of one melodic line by another, in which the second line starts after the first.
15. Printing. a 48-point type.
16. one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
17. Roman Catholic Church. one of the members (canons regular) of certain religious orders.
18. a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it.

Origin of Canon

before 900; Middle English, Old English Latin Greek kanṓn measuring rod, rule, akin to kánna cane

Examples for Canon

If you look at said canon, you will notice that most of them are terribly written.

When he gets his hands on a canon copier, the reader gets a glimpse into the unique fashion in which his mind works.

Napoleon looked at his uncle the canon with indignation and denial on his face.

A video game with terrible writing can still be added into the canon of “Best games ever made.”

Before the time of the Maccabees there was no canon of sacred books.

The other canon shook his head in dismay at such arrant folly.

Why, Napoleon, you did not dare to even touch the pears of your uncle the canon.

Well, and is your uncle the canon's garden more sacred than any one else's garden?

The rule is that every time a new writer enters the canon an old one has to get the boot.

His canon camera dangled by his side and the feeling of uncertainty over what he could now report punctuated everything he said.