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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Adj

Definition 1:
• Clipping of canonical.
Example: The franchise's book spinoff is usually not considered canon.
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: non-canon
Labels: lifestyle, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Name

Definition 1:
• A surname.

Definition 2:
• The Canon of the Mass.
Labels: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism, with-definite-article
Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.ən/
Pronunciation (ENPR): kăn'ən

Definition 1:
• A generally accepted principle; a rule.
Example: The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 2:
• A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
Example: the Canon of Polykleitos
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 3:
• A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 4:
• The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
Example: the entire Shakespearean canon
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 5:
• A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 6:
• A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
Example: We must proceed according to canon law.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 7:
• A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 8:
• In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 9:
• A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
Example: Pachelbel's Canon has become very popular.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 10:
• A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
Labels: law, Roman, countable, uncountable

Definition 11:
• The officially recognized continuity, events, characters, relationships, etc. of a work of fiction.
Example: A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.
Labels: lifestyle, slang, uncountable

Definition 12:
• Alternative form of cannon ("rolled and filleted loin of meat").
Example: a canon of beef or lamb
Labels: cooking, food, lifestyle, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Definition 13:
• A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
Labels: media, printing, publishing, dated, uncountable

Definition 14:
• The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
Labels: countable, uncountable
Noun

Definition 1:
• A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

Definition 2:
• Alternative spelling of qanun.
Labels: alt-of, alternative

Definition 3:
• Alternative spelling of cannon ("weapon").
Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete

Definition 4:
• Obsolete spelling of canyon.
Labels: alt-of, obsolete

Definition 5:
• Alternative letter-case form of canon: a member of a chapter.
Labels: Christianity, alt-of

Definition 6:
• A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

Definition 7:
• Alternative spelling of cannon ("a carom in billiards").
Labels: alt-of, alternative

Definition 8:
• Title for a canon.
Example: Canon Smith is our new parish priest.
Labels: Christianity

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canon