canon
[noun]
Synonyms:
- rule, criterion, dictate, formula, precept, principle, regulation, standard, statute, yardstick
- list, catalogue, roll

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Canon trademark
a brand (=type) of camera and other electronic equipment such as photocopiers made by the Japanese company Canon

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can‧on /ˈkænən/ noun [countable]
[Sense 1: Date: 1100-1200; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: canunie, from Late Latin canonicus 'person living under a rule', from Greek, from kanon]
[Sense 2-5: Date: 800-900; Language: Latin; Origin: 'ruler, rule, standard', from Greek kanon]

1. a Christian priest who has special duties in a cathedral

2. formal a standard, rule, or principle, or set of these, that are believed by a group of people to be right and good
canon of
Mapplethorpe’s pictures offended the canons of American good taste.

3. formal
a) a list of books or pieces of music that are officially recognized as being the work of a certain writer:
the Shakespearean canon
b) all the books that are recognized as being the most important pieces of literature:
the literary canon

4. a piece of music in which a tune is started by one singer or instrument and is copied by each of the others

5. an established law of the Christian church

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