1. canon - Noun
2. canon - Adjective
3. Canon - Proper noun
See Carom.
A law or rule.
A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz. C. S. Lewis
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760s was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688. Bernard Bailyn
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey. Camille Paglia
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago. Peter Drucker
The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon. Armenian Proverb
The mouth of a canon is less dangerous than that of a scandalmonger. Arabic Proverb