canon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A general rule or principle that is widely accepted in a field.

   The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

2. 2
   noun

   The books or stories officially accepted as part of a fictional world.

   A later book revealed the aliens came from Earth, but fans argue it is not canon.

3. 3
   noun

   The group of works regarded as the most important in a subject.

   These three novels are firmly part of the English literary canon.

4. 4
   noun

   A piece of music in which voices sing the same tune but start at different times.

   Pachelbel's Canon is often played at weddings.

Common collocations

• canon law Noun + noun

* 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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