Meaning of canon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Alternative letter-case form of canon: a member of a chapter.
   alt-of
3. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
   countable, uncountable
4. canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)
5. Alternative spelling of canyon.
   alt-of, alternative
6. A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
7. Alternative spelling of qanun.
   alt-of, alternative
8. Alternative spelling of cannon (“weapon”).
   alt-of, alternative, obsolete
9. Obsolete spelling of canyon.
   alt-of, obsolete
10. The Canon of the Mass.
    with-definite-article
11. Title for a canon.
12. A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
    countable, uncountable
13. tax, fee
14. canyon.
15. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
16. Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”).
    alt-of, alternative
17. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
    countable, uncountable
18. A principle governing affairs within or among political units:decree, edict, institute, law, ordinance, precept, prescription, regulation, rule.
19. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
    countable, uncountable
20. kanoniek مُطابِقٌ للشَّرع الكَنَسي правоврен canônico kanonický, kněžský vorschriftsmäßig kanonisk; kirkeretsligt κανονικόςcanónico kanooniline شرعی؛ مورد قبول kanoninen canonique קָנוֹנִי धर्मनियमानुकूल kanonski kánoni secara kanon í samræmi við kirkjurétt canonico 教会法の 교회법상의, 정경으로 인정된, 권위로 인정된 kanoninis, kanonizuotas kanonisks menurut hukum kanun canonisch kanonisk, kirkerettsligkanoniczny قانونی canónico canonic канонический kanonický kanonski kanonski kanonisk ซึ่งเป็นที่ยอมรับ kutsal ola...
21. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
    countable, uncountable
22. to place in the list of saints. Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920. kanoniseer, heilig verklaar يُعْلِنُ قُدْسِيَّةِ الشَّخًش بَعْدَ وفاتِهِ канонизирам canonizar prohlásit za svatého, vysvětit heiligsprechen kanonisere; erklære for helgen ανακηρύσσω κπ. άγιο canonizar kanoniseerima جزو مقدسات قرار دادن؛ مقدس اعلام کردن kanonisoida canoniser לִכְלֹל בְּרְשִימַת קְדוֹשִים संत घोषित करना kanonizirati szentté avat dikuduskan taka í dÿrlingatölu canonizzare 聖人の列に加える (~을) 시성으로 인정하다 kanonizuoti, pas...
23. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
    countable, uncountable
24. kanonisering, heiligverklaring إعْلانِ قُدْسِيَّةِ الشَّخْصِ بَعْدَ وَفاتِهِ канонизиране canonização prohlášení za svatého die Heiligsprechung kanonisering; helgenkåring αγιοποίηση canonización kanoniseerimine مقدس سازی kanonisointi canonisationקידוש संत घोषित करने की प्रक्रिया kanonizacija szenttéavatás kanonisasi upptaka í dÿrlingatölu canonizzazione 列聖 (式) 시성 kanonizacija kanonizācija pengkanunan heiligverklaringkanonisering kanonizacja مقدس جورول canonização canoni­zare канонизация vyhlá...
25. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
    countable, uncountable
26. An ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council.
27. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
    countable, uncountable
28. A secular law, rule, or code of law.
29. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
    countable, uncountable
30. An established principle: the canons of polite society.
31. A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
    Roman, countable, uncountable
32. The books of the Bible officially accepted as Holy Scripture.
33. 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
34. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field: "the durable canon of American short fiction" (William Styron).
35. A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
    dated, uncountable
36. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”

“Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.”

“the Canon of Polykleitos”

“Despite the many advances made by modern scholars towards a clearer comprehension of the theoretical basis of the Canon of Polykleitos, the results of these studies show an absence of any general agreement upon the practical application of that canon in works of art.”

“Russo had been working as a salesman, selling Great Books of the Western World, hawking the canon to the rubes.”

“the durable canon of American short fiction”

“the entire Shakespearean canon”

“We must proceed according to canon law.”

“Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.”

“The lessees of public lands had to pay a perpetual rent or "canon" at some periodical time.”

“A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.”

“Meanwhile, having learned the whereabouts of the Death Star's plans, the rebels send their best platypus agent to obtain them, in hopes of finding a weakness. And none of this is canon, so just relax.”

“a canon of beef or lamb”

“[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" [...]”

“Clarks Canon, […] very sandy, hilly, deep canons (or ravines), river valleys, and no trees or brush […]”

“[…]we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river[…]”

“He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.”

“Steadily it ascended toward the mountains, into which they filed through a narrow cañon close to noon.”

“The morning after this decision, I started up the cañon of Tenaya, caring little about the quantity of bread I carried; for, I thought, a fast and a storm and a difficult cañon were just the medicine I needed.”

“the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff”

“The Reduction Works stand on the brow of the first terrace; here the plain of the valley disappears, and north of us the valley takes the shape of a cañón, narrowing down.”

“In those early days the grasses in the cañóns grew high.”

“She compares the grandness and age of a California mission to the cañón, an archetypal image of the Southwest landscape.”

“Canon Smith is our new parish priest.”

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