Canon | Mean of canon in English Dictionary

/ˈkænən/

• Noun
• an accepted rule or guide about how people should behave or about how something should be done
1. Anyone who violates every canon of decency as she has done should be dismissed immediately.
2. the canons of good taste
3. By the canons of science, the experiment was not valid.
• a group of books, poems, plays, etc., that are traditionally considered to be very important
1. the canon of American literature = the American literary canon
2. She argues that the canon excludes too many women and minority writers.
• the group of books, poems, plays, etc., that a particular author is known to have written
1. the small canon of Alcott novels

• a list of books that are considered to be part of a religion's official text
1. writings that are outside the Jewish canon
• a piece of music in which the same melody is started at different times by each of the different groups of voices or instruments
• a Christian priest who works in a cathedral