canon

About 6.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A generally accepted principle; a rule.

   The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

2. noun A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.

   the Canon of Polykleitos

3. noun A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
4. noun The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

   the entire Shakespearean canon

5. noun A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
6. noun A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

   We must proceed according to canon law.

7. noun A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
8. noun In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

cannon canons canun canyon