Authoritative rules, traditions or texts, such as by Shakespeare

noun

1. A regulation or dogma decreed by a church council
2. A provision of canon law
3. The most solemn and unvarying part of the Mass including the consecration of the bread and wine
4. An authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture
5. The authentic works of a writer

   "the Chaucer canon"

6. A sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works

   "the canon of great literature"

7. An accepted principle or rule
8. A criterion or standard of judgment

   "the canons of good taste"

9. A body of principles, rules, standards, or norms

   "according to newspaper canon … a big story calls for a lot of copy"

10. A contrapuntal musical composition in which each successively entering voice presents the initial theme usually transformed in a strictly consistent way

noun

1. A clergyman belonging to the chapter or the staff of a cathedral or collegiate church
2. Canon regular

noun

1. A deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it
2. Something resembling a canyon

   "the city's concrete canyons"

noun

1. A large, heavy gun usually mounted on a carriage
2. A heavy-caliber automatic aircraft gun firing explosive shells
3. Any device for propelling a substance or object at high speeds

   "an air cannon"

4. The projecting part of a bell by which it is hung ear
5. The part of the leg in which the cannon bone is found
6. A very strong throwing arm

   "While Hershberger had a quick, accurate arm, Lombardi had a cannon."

7. a large, heavy gun usually mounted on a carriage
8. a heavy-caliber automatic aircraft gun firing explosive shells
9. any device for propelling a substance or object at high speeds

noun

1. A deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it
2. Something resembling a canyon

   "the city's concrete canyons"

noun

1. The usually codified law governing a church

noun

1. Canonist

noun

1. A member of one of several Roman Catholic religious institutes of regular priests living in community under a usually Augustinian rule