What is the meaning of Canon?

A generally accepted principle; a rule.

a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius

Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.

Alternative form of cannon (rolled and filleted loin of meat)

A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

Clipping of canonical.

Alternative spelling of qanun

Alternative spelling of cannon (weapon)

Alternative spelling of cannon (a carom in billiards)

Obsolete spelling of canyon.

canon (set of representative or pre-eminent literary works)

  1. canon (set of authoritative religious books, especially those constituting the Bible)

canon (set of authoritative religious books, especially those constituting the Bible)

canon (religious law)

canon (round, music piece consisting of the same melody sung by different voices)

canon (part of a mass following the Sanctus up to the end of the Pater Noster, consisting mostly of prayers)

canon (principle, rule)

cannon, (big) gun

barrel (of firearm)

cannon for a horse

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hottie, dish, bombshell (attractive man/woman)

hot, sexy

glass of wine

canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)

a measuring line

precept, rule, canon

a yearly tribute paid to the emperor; a periodic payment

authorized catalog, especially of books of the Bible or of the saints

decree of a church synod

the Canon of the Mass

relic

a cannon (artillery)

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Alternative form of canoun (authoritative rules)

Alternative form of canoun (clergy member)

tube

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canon

tenet, dogma, rule, norm, precept

punishment or penance for breaking such a religious rule

canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)

tax, fee

canon (ecclesiastical degree)

canon (clerical)

cannon

first/third-person plural preterite colloquial of canu

Source: wiktionary.org